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Reflections on Qajar Art and Its Significance
Iranian Studies, 2001It is with some reluctance that I agreed to contribute a few remarks to conclude a learned and fruitful colloquium and to react, once again, to a wonderful exhibition on Qajar art. My reluctance is simple to explain and to justify. Such professional competencies as I have are those of a medievalist who begins to feel slightly uneasy by the middle of ...
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Orient oder Rom?Qajar “Aryan” Architecture and Strzygowski's Art History
The Art Bulletin, 2007One of the most heated controversies of modern scholarship, the 1901 “Orient or Rome” debate was inflamed by the simultaneous publication of two books. While Italian archaeologist Giovanni Rivoira argued for the origin of Western architecture in Roman ingenuity, Austrian art historian Josef Strzygowski contended, “The true source of Western artistic ...
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Iranian Studies, 2001
Paradoxical though it may seem, I would like to begin my discussion of Qajar photography with a little-known painting (pl. 1). The work of an anonymous mid-nineteenth-century artist, this image marks an aesthetic watershed. Here, an unknown artist is photographing Nasir al-Din Shah who is posing for a portrait. The image, of course, is meant to capture
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Paradoxical though it may seem, I would like to begin my discussion of Qajar photography with a little-known painting (pl. 1). The work of an anonymous mid-nineteenth-century artist, this image marks an aesthetic watershed. Here, an unknown artist is photographing Nasir al-Din Shah who is posing for a portrait. The image, of course, is meant to capture
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IRANIAN ART OF THE QAJAR ERA: EUROPEAN INFLUENCES AND «PERSIAN STYLE» FOR EXPORT
HSE University Journal of Art & DesignThe Qajar era (late XVIII-1925) gave the world a unique style, unmistakably recognizable in painting, crafts, and photography. Clumsy, striking the imagination with its amazing brightness of colors and bold artistic techniques, it was formed largely due to active interaction with European culture via respect for the Persian traditional styles.
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2014
In this paper, I shall discuss how angels or winged spirits appear in the art of the Mughal Empire. The Mughals, the Muslim dynasty which was in power in India from 1526 to 1858, were paradigmatic in many of their formulations, and brilliantly expressed their ideas in the visual arts.
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In this paper, I shall discuss how angels or winged spirits appear in the art of the Mughal Empire. The Mughals, the Muslim dynasty which was in power in India from 1526 to 1858, were paradigmatic in many of their formulations, and brilliantly expressed their ideas in the visual arts.
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2019
Abstract From the beginning of the formation of Iranian graphic design in its current sense, "identity" has been established as an important issue in the legacy of the Iranian visual history. The claim that can be conceivable with a glance at the press graphic design of the first Iranian newspapers and design of the first signs using Iranian ancient ...
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Abstract From the beginning of the formation of Iranian graphic design in its current sense, "identity" has been established as an important issue in the legacy of the Iranian visual history. The claim that can be conceivable with a glance at the press graphic design of the first Iranian newspapers and design of the first signs using Iranian ancient ...
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