Portraits, photographs, and politics in the carpet medium: Iran, the soviet union and beyond

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

When thinking of Oriental carpets, motifs like geometrical and vegetal ornament, hunting scenes, and paradisiacal gardens usually come to mind. This paper, instead, draws attention to pictorial rugs featuring large-scale portraits that were made in Iran and the Soviet Union in the 19th and 20th century. By shedding light on this hitherto rather neglected group of artifacts and by interrogating the artistic practices and challenges of translating portraits onto carpets, this study will contribute to discussions of artistic intermedial processes, multiple temporalities of artifacts, and the relationship of figure and ornament. Further, it will enhance our understanding of the political dimensions of portrait rugs.

Original languageEnglish
JournalKonsthistorisk Tidskrift
Volume83
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)244-265
Number of pages22
ISSN0023-3609
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 09.2014
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
61. See the project Art, Space, and Mobility in the Early Ages of Globalization: The Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent (MeCAIS) 400–1600, directed by Hannah Baader, Avinoam Shalem, and Gerhard Wolf and funded by the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, which addresses also historiographies and narratives of the 19th–21st centuries, cf. Gerhard Wolf, »Kunstgeschichte, aber wo? Florentiner Perspektiven auf das Projekt einer Global Art History II«, Kritische Berichte, No 40.2, 2012, pp. 60–68.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Konsthistoriska Sallskapet.

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. Intensive Recreational Activities in Suburban Forests
  2. Hormonal chaos: The scientific and social origins of the environmental endocrine hypotheses
  3. Introducing VISU
  4. Das Seufzen der Olimpia
  5. The wonderfully organized and mediated endurance of ephemera
  6. Implementing Education for Sustainable Development in teacher education
  7. Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement auf dem Vormarsch
  8. Pollination of apple variaties across Europe: Dependecy on cross pollination and visitor communities
  9. Special Issue 'Communication for and about Sustainability'
  10. Entwicklung eines Messstandes zur automatisierten Messung der radialen Lagerluft von Wälzlagern
  11. Alice in different Wonderlands
  12. Exploring the link between organizational culture and organizational effectiveness
  13. Creativity in entrepreneurship
  14. Stille Wasser sind kalt
  15. Women and the conservation of agroecosystems
  16. Convergence and privatisation in Telecommunications «Regulation of access to limited resources in telecommunications sector in Europe»
  17. Effect of thermal treatment on thermal expansion behaviour of magnesium alloy based hybrid composites
  18. Sustainability Balanced Scorecard
  19. Eltern besser befähigen
  20. Teilhabe an JHWHs Macht
  21. The Singapore Opinion or the End of Mixity as We Know It
  22. Brexit's implications for EU-NATO cooperation
  23. On inhomogeneous Bernoulli convolutions and random power series
  24. DRGs and the Professional Independence of Physicians
  25. Multi-Level Water Governance
  26. Die Honorierung von Umweltleistungen per Ausschreibung
  27. Language Demands of the Labour Market: A Predictor of Students’ Investments into Multilingual Skills?
  28. Climate policy innovation
  29. Evolution, Empowerment, and Emancipation
  30. Legal aspects of ground-based infrastructure for space situational awareness
  31. Ein Königsweg der Hochschulpolitik mit Stolpersteinen
  32. Zulässigkeit eines Blanko-Eigenwechsels als Sicherheit im Verbrauchervertrag und Klage auf Zahlung einer Wechselschuld
  33. Assessing Online Consultation in Participatory Governance