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Marcus Milwright: Writing Art History as Fiction: A Story of Islamic Art
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomIt is a sign of the growing maturity of the field of Islamic art history that there are already many introductory surveys. Some attempt to cover all regions and periods, though it is more common for these books to establish chronological and geographical boundaries. More recently, introductions to the study of Islamic material and visual…
Professor Suranjan Das: Revisiting the Nehru Years in India, 1947 – 1964
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomMonograph Series Editorial Board
Royal Asiatic Society Council Room 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomIslamic Bookbinding revealed through the lens of the Montefiascone Conservation Project
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch: Goderdzi Chokheli’s ‘Human Sadness’ with talks by Professor Dan Healey, Ms Lia Chokoshvili, and Translators
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr Stephen Murphy: Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDetail of Buddha image in carved into the rock face in mahāparinibbāṇa on the Phu Wiang Mountain range, Chaiyaphum province, Thailand. Late 8th to early 9th century. Author’s photograph. The Khorat Plateau is a landscape of some 155,000 square kilometres of what is now northeast Thailand and central Laos. Despite the rich evidence for the…
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Royal Asiatic Society Council Room 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomMansi Rao: Dining tables on streets and carpets on floors – A study of vernacular furniture in north-west India
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe South Asia Collection Museum in Norwich,UK has over 250 vernacular furniture items and related objects from north-west India. When it came to representing these objects, available research was scarce. Emerging from this museological need of contextualising the collection, a collaborative project, ‘Vernacular Furniture of North-West India’ was conducted with the Design Innovation and…