Technologies of the Image (Hardcover)

David J. Roxburgh

ISBN 10: 0300229194 / ISBN 13: 9780300229196

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017

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Hardcover. The diverse and beautiful art of Qajar Iran (17791925) has long been understudied and underappreciated. This insightful publication reassesses Qajar art, particularly its four principal mediumslacquer, painting and drawing on paper, lithography, and photographyand 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 Harvards 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 MuseumsExhibition Schedule:Harvard Art Museums (08/26/1701/07/18) "This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from August 26, 2017 through January 7, 2018"--Colophon. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Technologies of the Image (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300229194
• ISBN 13: 9780300229196
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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)

About the Author

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.