Lecture – Lacquer, Lithography, and Photography: Image-Making in 19th-Century Iran
September 13, 2017
The 19th century was an era of heightened image-making in Iran. Stimulated and challenged by developments both inside and outside their country, Iranian artists mastered new image technologies and readily assimilated an unprecedented influx of pictorial material from abroad into their historical art forms. As the century unfolded, the new Qajar dynasty (c. 1779–1925) sought to unify a country torn by civil war, even as the outside world increasingly intruded on Iranian affairs.
In this lecture, Mary McWilliams, the Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art at the Harvard Art Museums; Farshid Emami, assistant professor of art at Oberlin College; and Mira Xenia Schwerda, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, examine the mobility of images and aesthetic effects across media and the development of new audiences for the visual arts in Qajar Iran. Their scholarship was central to the related exhibition "Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran," on view from August 26, 2017 to January 7, 2018.
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