Jornada d'Estudis Doctorals del Departament d'Art i Musicologia

Abstract

Miniature painting was one of the main ways of visual storytelling in the court (and sometimes outside of it as well) of the Ottomans. Such paintings, mostly accompanied texts in illustrated manuscripts yet had a visual life on their own. This form of art ceased to exist in the beginning of the 19th century. In this seminar we will look at the history and the making of Ottoman miniature paintings and get an overview of different types and styles of representation. In the second half, we will focus on the "afterlives" of miniature paintings in contemporary art production (movies, novels, contemporary art) and discuss why and how this forgotten form of art survives in the cracks of contemporary cultural production.

Begüm Özden Firat is Professor in the Department of Sociology in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey. She works in the fiels of visual culture, urban sociology, and social movements studies. She is the co-editor of Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009), Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas, Possibilities (Rodopi, 2011), and Aesthetics and Resistance in the Age of Global Uprisings (¿leti¿im, 2015). Her book entitled Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature. Contemporary Readings of an Imperial Art is published by I. B. Tauris in 2015. She is one of the directors of the documentary Welcome Lenin (2016) and the director of the short experimental video The Lightwell (2020).

Presencial, Sala de Graus de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres B7/052
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