Technologies of the Image
WARNING
You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com
Art in 19th-Century Iran
Edited by David J. Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams; With contributions by Farshid Emami, Mary McWilliams, David J. Roxburgh, and Mira Xenia Schwerda
View Inside
Format: HC - Paper over BoardPrice: $50.00
Our shopping cart only supports Mozilla Firefox. Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase.
The diverse and beautiful art of Qajar Iran (1779–1925) has long been understudied and underappreciated. This insightful publication reassesses Qajar art, particularly its four principal mediums—lacquer, painting and drawing on paper, lithography, and photography—and their intertwined development. The Qajar era saw the rise of new technologies and the incorporation of mass-produced items imported from Europe, Russia, and India. These cultural changes sparked a shift in the Iranian art world, as artists produced printed and photographic images and also used these widely disseminated mediums as sources for their paintings on paper and in lacquer. Technologies of the Image illustrates dozens of Qajar works, including sketches and designs from Harvard’s extraordinary album of artists’ drawings, photographs by Ali Khan Vali, and stunning Persian lacquer from private collections. The book considers Qajar art as the product of a rapidly changing art world in which images moved across and between media, highlighting objects that span contexts of production and patronage, from royal to sub-royal.
Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums
Exhibition Schedule:
Harvard Art Museums
(08/26/17–01/07/18)
David J. Roxburgh is the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History and chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Mary McWilliams is the Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art at the Harvard Art Museums.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Harvard Art Museums
(08/26/17–01/07/18)
ISBN: 9780300229196
Publication Date: October 17, 2017
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums
Publication Date: October 17, 2017
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums
192 pages, 9 x 11
232 color + b/w illus.
232 color + b/w illus.
