Mittwoch, 09. Oktober 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 iCal
Ringvorlesung Turkologie Wintersemester 2024/25
Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction
October 9th, 2024 - January 22th, 2025, 5PM - 6:30PM
Institut für Orientalistik, Hörsaal
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4.1 (Campus Universität Wien), A-1090 Wien
Hybrider Event (an einem physischen Ort und online)
The Rise of the Concept of ‘Islamic Art’
Markus Ritter (University of Vienna)
Abstract
Words and concepts frame the parameters of what is negotiated and defined as cultural heritage, often in the context of identity debates. This is particularly true for the visual and material heritage of art and architecture as such parameters frame the discussion of what is declared worthy of attention and resources to be preserved, collected, and studied. Most modern countries with a history and presence of Islam would refer to it in one way or another in matters of cultural heritage. But what does it mean to speak of ‘Islamic art,’ that is, to use the universal category of religion for an entity of art rather than linguistic, geographical, historical or other categories? Such category is by no means self-evident; it has only been adopted by Islamic societies in modern times, and can be shown to have emerged in nineteenth-century Europe. This talk will focus on the history of the concept and term ‘Islamic art.’ It will not provide a formalistic or cultural definition, nor the do’s and don’t’s of its use. Rather, it examines the emergence of ‘Islamic art’ in European art historiography and its international rise and use.
Bio
Markus Ritter was appointed Professor of Islamic Art History at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna in 2012. He received his PhD from the University of Bamberg in 2004, having studied there, in Cairo and in Tehran. He specialises in the medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on the Arab Levant and Iran up to the nineteenth century. His books include Moscheen und Madrasabauten in Iran 1785–1848: Architektur zwischen Rückgriff und Neuerung (2006, 2022); The Golden Quran From the Age of the Seljuks and Atabegs (with Nourane Ben Azzouna, 2015); Der umayyadische Palast des 8. Jahrhunderts in Ḫirbat al-Minya am See von Tiberias (2017); The Indigenous Lens? Early Photography in the Near and Middle East (edited with Staci G. Scheiwiller, 2018). His research interests relate to architecture, mural and book imagery, the art and changing context of objects, and the historiography of Islamic art history.
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Ayse Dilsiz Hartmuth
Institut für Orientalistik
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Erstellt am Donnerstag, 19. September 2024, 12:03
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 23. September 2024, 07:50