[CS] CS Wednesday Noon Talk March 27, by Yael Rice, PhD, "Sound and Vision/Word and Image: Islamic Portraiture and its Many Forms" in ASH Lobby at noon
Paula Harmon
pharmon at hampshire.edu
Mon Mar 25 12:14:58 EDT 2013
*"Sound and Vision/Word and Image: Islamic Portraiture and its Many Forms" *
by Yael Rice, PhD, Five College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic
Art at Amherst College
This lunch is hosted by CS and the Hampshire College Center for the
Study of Science in Muslim Societies (SSiMS)
http://www.hampshire.edu/academics/SSiMS.htm
Abstract:It is a widespread misconception that the medieval and
early-modern arts of the Islamic lands lacked a tradition of figural
depiction. In fact, illustrated manuscripts from Mosul (Iraq) to Agra
(India) provide clear evidence of a rich practice of figuration,
including painted portraits of authors, patrons, and other important
figures. With several notable exceptions, manuscripts of histories,
poetic works, biographies, and other texts nevertheless evidence a
pronounced reliance upon verbal, rather than pictorial, representations
of likeness. This talk will address the complex relationship between
textual and pictorial portrait imagery in the book arts of Greater Iran
and South Asia from the 13th through the 17th centuries, focusing in
particular on the Mughal court of northern India, which saw a marked
shift towards a practice of mimetic portraiture rooted in optical,
sensate experiences.
Biographical Statement:Yael Rice (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
specializes in the art and architecture of Greater Iran and South Asia,
with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the
fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. Currently the Five College
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Art at Amherst College, she
previously held the position of Assistant Curator of Indian and
Himalayan Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 2009 till 2012. Her
publications include studies of European engravings and Persian
calligraphic specimens in Mughal royal albums, the 1598--99
MughalRazmnama (Book of war), and an
early fifteenth-century Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami copied and
illustrated in the region of Fars, Iran.
Rice's current research concerns physiognomic analysis as a courtly
and artistic practice, Mughal depictions of imperial dreams, paintings
made for the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707), and the cultural
and material history of jade in early modern Central and South Asia.
IN THE ASH LOBBY
Alight lunch will be available at noon.
--
Paula Harmon, Administrative Assistant
School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413.559.5502
fax: 413.559.5438
http://cs.hampshire.edu
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