Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2025, 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)
Building the Islamic Art Market after 9/11: A Heritage Economy of the 21st Century
Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna)
Abstract
This talk overviews the development of the Islamic art market in the first two decades of the 21st century, while reviewing its trends, growth and forecast. Although it already existed during the second half of the 20th century, this market rapidly rose after the September 11 attacks in 2001, which stirred not only cultural conflicts between Muslim majority societies of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region or otherwise categorically called ‘non-Western’ world, versus Christian-majority societies of the Euro-American world, but also economic interest in the collectable genre called ‘Islamic art’. Growing in parallel with multimillion dollar projects of old gallery reconfiguration and new museum construction from New York (i.e. Metropolitan Museum of Art, aka MET; completed in November 2011) to Doha (i.e. Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, aka MIA; opened in November 2008), the Islamic art market reached its peak in the early 2010s. Its dominance in global art auction sales, from the West to the New Orient (i.e. Arab states of the Persian Gulf), however, has exerted a negative impact on ethical issues in art business, especially concerning authenticity and provenance. While recent attempts to apply scientific methods for analysing material composition and for tracing provenance records are welcome, a number of questions remain unanswered. In particular, the problem of illicit trafficking in cultural property and the impact of heritage crime on the Islamic art market need to be readdressed.
Bio
Yuka Kadoi, PhD, is an art historian and art historiographer, currently directing an FWF (Austrian Science Fund)-sponsored project, Persica Centropa: Cosmopolitan Artefacts and Artifices in the Age of Crises (1900-1950), at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, Department of Art History, University of Vienna. Her main expertise lies in the art, architecture and material culture of pre-modern Eurasia, with special reference to the mobility of artefacts, history of collecting and critical museology. She is the author or editor/co-editor of seven books and three special issues of peer-reviewed journals, including her award-winning Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran (EUP, 2009/2018), as well as the author of more than sixty articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. She is currently finalising the manuscript of her second monograph (under contract with EUP), which deals with the early twentieth-century history and historiography of Persian art.
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Ayse Dilsiz Hartmuth
Institut für Orientalistik
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Erstellt am Dienstag, 26. November 2024, 13:20
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