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@Yael_Rice
Sep 5, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Border Crossing, the biennial symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association, is happening Oct 25–27 at @Yale. Zainab Bahrani of Columbia U. will keynote. @HIAA_art Image
More details here: hiaa2018.yale.edu
#medievaltwitter : check out this panel on 'Medieval Translations,' including papers Toledo's choir screen panels, Ethiopian rock-cut churches, and Islamic textiles in 13th-c. England Image
For the book & print history folks, this panel on printing cultures--with papers on 19th c. Arabic pubs., Qajar postcards, Turkish journals of the 1920s, printmaking in 1960s Iraq--will be of interest. Moderated by F. Barry Flood. Image
And not to leave out #DH / #digitalarthistory: this panel takes a deep dive into digital methods for the study of Islamic manuscripts from India and Yemen, cultural heritage, and urban space. Image
And other borders are crossed in the 'Mobility and Markets' panel, which takes up Majhar architecture in Argentina, sandals from the Swahili coast, 18th-c. albums from Istanbul, and textiles on the move Image

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Jan 19, 2023
This has been making the rounds, so, to be clear: works like this were/are made in India for the tourist market. They're often, as here, painted on recycled manuscript pages over text that has no connection with the composition's subject.
Erotic imagery has a long history in South Asia. But paintings like this one were also made to cater to Western expectations of what South Asian art should look like.
To drive home how dissonant the pairing of (unrelated) painting & text can be, this @ExploreWellcome painting bears text that references Shaykh Farid al-Haq al-Din Ganj-i Shakar, a 13th-c. Sufi (Muslim saint) "flying penis copulating with a flying vagina" (the Wellcome Library's own description)
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Nov 10, 2020
One of the first things I did when I arrived at Amherst College was to ask the staff @meadartmuseum to see everything in the collection from South Asia. They kindly obliged & showed me lots of cool stuff, but one thing in particular made my jaw drop. A short thread...
Here it is--AC 1963.4--a painting on paper measuring around 42.5 x 31.7 cm. Looks like just a bunch of guys standing around a white building. BUT, the Persian inscription above IDs the scene as the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb visiting the shrine of Mu'in al-Din Chishti in Ajmer!
What's so interesting about this? Firstly, we have no other depictions of Aurangzeb visiting a Sufi shrine. And secondly, Aurangzeb is said to have ceased patronizing painting, effectively dismantling the royal workshop by the late 1660s.
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Oct 1, 2020
Today the students in my Indian art/arch course and I will be eating pongal and chutney together (remotely) as we learn about the Brihadesvara Temple in Thanjavur. I've never incorporated recipes/food into art history courses before, a habit I'm now rethinking.
Mine turned out "OK." Can't compete with the pongal served at Surguru in Pondicherry (my pic from years ago below) or really most pongals, but it does the job! Image
We used this recipe, FYI: indianhealthyrecipes.com/pongal-recipe-…
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Sep 26, 2020
As this brilliant thread makes clear, that evopsych paper tracks "trustworthiness displays" in a database of portraits of WHITE Euro elites, using an algorithm engineered to detect _contemporary bias_ in the perception of character of WHITE people...
In other words, the study is not only projecting presentist bias towards WHITE displays of "trustworthiness" (wtf that means) onto the past, it's doing so under the cover that these biases are natural & universal, a conclusion that studies the paper cites don't even support...
Thus, one might conclude from the study & graphs like this that greater GDP leads to more trustworthiness displays, but what we're really seeing is correlation btwn rise of colonizing states' GDP & presentist bias towards the appearance of white-coded trustworthiness/dominance... Image
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Sep 24, 2020
* stares in art historian * nature.com/articles/s4146… Image
It hadn't dawned on me till now that I work on cognitive fossils with low computed trustworthiness ImageImage
Also the Eurocentrism and whiteness of the whole study! Colleagues, take heed (from Johanna Drucker, "Is there a Digital Art History," 12: Image
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Jun 29, 2020
Christie's recent sale of a 15th-c. Qur'an ms. lacking transparent info. about its provenance has generated much debate about the legal/ethical dimensions of the sale & trafficking of mss. This is a *thread* about why the preservation of manuscripts & books even matters. 1/n
Firstly, on the legal/ethical issues re the sale/export/import of mss., int'l agreements and nat'l laws re protection of mss., & why transparency re the provenance of mss. matters as much as that of excavated materials see the brilliant @stephenniem here:
As @stephenniem explains, many view mss. (and books more broadly) as somehow excluded from international conventions & domestic laws about the sale/export/import of cultural property. The reasons for this are dubious, however.
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