"Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" Exhibition
Hunter College Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
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Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries presents a selection of over forty objects on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This exhibition examines a variety of stylistic modifications that occurred in Islamic art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During this time, cheaply produced goods from Europe, such as tableware, textiles and glassware flooded the markets of the Middle East. In addition to imitating Western goods by appropriating motifs and forms, the craftsmen adjusted the quality and style of their predominantly handmade objects to suit the changing local tastes and meet the demands of increasing numbers of Western travelers. Labeling the objects of this era “Western influenced,” collectors have largely ignored the Islamic arts from this era.
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Schedule
from February 07, 2008 to April 26, 2008