Warnock Lecture Series: Emine Fetvaci (Boston College), "The Wonder of Paper Joinery at the Ottoman Court"
When:
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, Pick-Laudati Auditorium, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Elizabeth Upenieks
(847) 491-7597
Group: Department of Art History
Category: Academic, Fine Arts
Description:
This talk will examine a stunning example of paper cutting and joining prepared by the Ottoman courtier, album maker, and "paper joiner" Kalender Pasha (d. 1616). The folio’s aesthetic qualities help to explain both why paper cutting became such a popular art form in the early-modern Ottoman court, and why Kalender’s work was especially appreciated by his contemporaries.
Biography: Emine Fetvacı is the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College. She specializes in the arts of the book in the early-modern Islamic world, and is the author of Picturing History at the Ottoman Court (Indiana University Press, 2013) and The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and Album Making at the Ottoman Court (Princeton University Press, 2019).