Ceramics from the Islamic World at the DIA: A History in Fragments
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Tuesday, Apr 4, 2023
6 p.m.
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Scholars have long known the importance of the DIA to the study of Islamic Art in North America. The DIA employed one of the first dedicated curators of Islamic art in the country, Mehmet Aga-Oglu, and mounted its first exhibition of Islamic art in 1930 with loans from all the major dealers of the time. The formation of the DIA collections in Islamic art is a more complicated story, taking place through many stages.
In this lecture, Dr. Margaret S. Graves, Associate Professor of Islamic Art at Indiana University, will explore the important collections of ceramics from the Islamic world held in the Institute today.
It will also examine the skilled craftsmanship that saw some pieces of ceramic art remade and reinvented for the market as they traveled to the new world of the twentieth-century United States.
Margaret S. Graves is Associate Professor of Islamic Art in the Department of Art History at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is currently in residence at the Clark Art Institute as a 2022-23 research fellow, writing a book called Invisible Hands: Islamic Ceramics on the Colonial Art Market.
Scholars have long known the importance of the DIA to the study of Islamic Art in North America. The DIA employed one of the first dedicated curators of Islamic art in the country, Mehmet Aga-Oglu, and mounted its first exhibition of Islamic art in 1930 with loans from all the major dealers of the time. The formation of the DIA collections in Islamic art is a more complicated story, taking place through many stages.
In this lecture, Dr. Margaret S. Graves, Associate Professor of Islamic Art at Indiana University, will explore the important collections of ceramics from the Islamic world held in the Institute today.
It will also examine the skilled craftsmanship that saw some pieces of ceramic art remade and reinvented for the market as they traveled to the new world of the twentieth-century United States.
Margaret S. Graves is Associate Professor of Islamic Art in the Department of Art History at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is currently in residence at the Clark Art Institute as a 2022-23 research fellow, writing a book called Invisible Hands: Islamic Ceramics on the Colonial Art Market.