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The lectures in this Society for Asian Art's Arts of Asia lecture series have been structured to provide a broad overview of both pre-Islamic and Islamic art. The subjects include pre-Islamic art in Iran, Central Asia, Arabia and Byzantium, painting, architecture, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, Islam in India, attitudes towards images, and contemporary art. Lectures include:
Introduction to Islamic Art
Qamar Adamjee, Asian Art Museum
Qamar Adamjee, Asian Art Museum
An Introduction to the Art of Pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia
David Stronach, UC Berkeley
David Stronach, UC Berkeley
Arts of Ancient Arabia
Massumeh Farhad, Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution
Massumeh Farhad, Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution
Assimilation and Conquest: Byzantine Sources for Islamic Art
Helen Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Helen Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Seeing and Being Seen in Isfahan: Expanding Gaze for an Early Modern Capital
Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania
Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania
Chinese Influence on Islamic Glazed Ceramics
Oliver Watson, University of Oxford
Building Types in Islamic Architecture
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, San Francisco State University
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, San Francisco State University
The Visual Culture of Islam in India
Alka Patel, UC Irvine
The Art of Islamic Calligraphy: A Journey through Time
Maryam Ekhtiar, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Seek Knowledge Evan as Far as China: East-West Cultural Transmissions in Post Mongol Iran
Ladan Akbarnia, British Museum
Ladan Akbarnia, British Museum
Imagining Europe at the Persian Court in the Seventeenth Century (1590–1720)
Amy Landau, Walters Art Museum
Amy Landau, Walters Art Museum
