Department Chair
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University
“Painting After the Mass-Produced Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran”
Rulers of the Qajar dynasty (1779-1925) in Iran pursued a broad range of military, bureaucratic and social reforms, formed new institutions—including the first polytechnic (Dar al-Funun, “Abode of the Sciences”), and embraced new technologies of the mass-produced image (photography and lithography). It was also a period of heightened exchange between Iran, India, Russia and the countries of...
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