| ISBN |
0300229186 (hardcover) |
| 9780300229189 (hardcover) |
| Title |
An album of artists' drawings from Qajar Iran / edited by David J. Roxburgh ; with contributions by Trent Barnes, Mycah Braxton, Gwendolyn Collaço, Farhad Dokhani, Bronwen Gulkis, Penley Knipe, Mary McWilliams, Sarah Mirseyedi, Veronika Poier, David J. Roxburgh, Mira Xenia Schwerda, and Meredyth Winter. |
| Publisher |
Cambridge, MA : Harvard Art Museums, 2017 |
| Physical desc. |
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 37 cm. |
| Note |
Distributed by Yale University Press. |
| Donation. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and (pages 103-109) index. |
| Contents |
The Harvard Qajar album: from cover to cover / David J. Roxburgh -- Pouncing and the materiality of image transfer / Trent Barnes -- Assimilation and rupture: Qajar ink and watercolor technique / Mycah Braxton -- Crafting time through dress: a pastiche of periods and regions / Gwendolyn Collaço -- Religious subjects and themes: Shi'i Islam and the revival of Iranian Sufism and dervishes / Farhad Dokhani -- Trades and professions / Bronwen Gulkis -- The papers in the Harvard Qajar album / Penley Knipe -- Reflections of the Najaf circle of artists in Isfahan / Mary McWilliams -- Aesthetic innovation and conditions of modernity in 19th-century Iran / Sarah Mirseyedi -- Cross-cultural modernity: military reform and the image of the Shah / Veronika Poier -- Amorous couples: depictions of permitted and prohibited love / Mira Xenia Schwerda -- The image and the drawing in Qajar Iran / Meredyth Winter -- Appendix 1: Watermarks in the Harvard Qajar album -- Appendix 2: Lacquer objects by artists of the Najaf circle related to drawings in the Harvard Qajar album. |
| Corporate name |
Harvard Art Museums -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Harvard Qajar album -- Catalogs |
| Drawing, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Art, Iranian -- 19th century -- Catalogs |
| Pattern books -- Iran -- Catalogs |
| Iran -- History -- Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925 -- Catalogs |
| Added name(s) |
Roxburgh, David J. editor |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Harvard Art Museums |
