BOOKS THAT BIND: THE PERSIANATE ALBUM IN SOUTH ASIA
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06 Oct
2021
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Southasian Painting
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Yael Rice
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Image: Page from an album probably produced in Lucknow, India, during the eighteenth century, reputedly associated with Warren Hastings. Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper, overall page: 46 × 32.2 cm. National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., F1907.276.13v
Between the late sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, manuscript workshops across South Asia created an astonishing number of albums known as muraqqa‘s. In conception and organization, these stitched books drew from earlier album-making traditions associated with the Persian-speaking, or Persianate, courts of Iran and Central Asia, but their contents—encompassing drawings, paintings, calligraphies, and European prints—were far more global in orientation. This lecture will trace the widespread production and circulation of these albums across South Asia and beyond.
This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate Southasian Painting Course “ARTS OF THE BOOK IN SOUTH ASIA”
Registration Fee for the course: Rs. 15,000 | Students: Rs. 10,000*.
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October 6, 2021
Timing: 6:15 - 8:30 PM
Registrations Closed
Yael Rice
Yael Rice is an assistant professor of art history and Asian languages and civilizations at Amherst College, Massachusetts. She specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia, Central Asia, and Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph Agents of Insight: Artists, Books, and Painting in Mughal South Asia (University of Washington Press) and articles on the Mughal manuscript workshop and the production and circulation of Persianate albums (muraqqa‘s) in South Asia and beyond.