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Islamic Art and the Museum provides a historical and conceptual analysis of Islamic art and documents the successes and failings of its presentation in museums worldwide. The contributors challenge existing notions on the research, methodology, and analysis of Islamic art and investigate the extent to which socio-historical and anthropological approaches result in new analytical perspectives. They also examine the difficulties that need to be overcome when presenting Islamic art to avoid reducing the objects merely to the visual and aesthetic.
Museums covered in detail include Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World Galleries and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ontario.
Edited by Benoît Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber, and Gerhard Wolf.
Introduction: Islamic Art and the Museum
Benoît Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber, Gerhard Wolf
1. The Role of the Museum in the Study and Knowledge of Islamic Art
Oleg Grabar
2. A Concert of Things. Thoughts on Objects of Islamic Art in the Museum Context
Stefan Weber
Representations of Islamic Art:
3. The Concept of Islamic Art: Inherited Discourses and New Approaches
Gülru Necipoglu
4. Islamic Art at a Crossroads?
Nasser Rabbat
5. Intrinsic Goals and External Influence: On Some Factors Affecting Research and Presentation of Islamic Art
Lorenz Korn
6. The Study of Islamic Art at a Crossroads, and Humanity as a Whole
Kirsten Scheid
7. Preliminary Thoughts on an Entangled Presentation of “Islamic Art”
Vera Beyer
Context and Aesthetics:
8. Multivalent Paradigms of Interpretation and the Aura or Anima of the Object
Avinoam Shalem
9. The Stuff of History: Everyday Objects, the Construction of Ambiguous Meanings, and the “Afterlife” of Social Things
Christian Sassmannshausen
10. The Cultural Turn, the Spatial Turn, and the Writing of Middle Eastern History
Gudrun Krämer
11. The Power of Layers or the Layers of Power? The Social Life of Things as the Backbone of New Narratives
Beshara Doumani
12. A Historian’s Task: Make Sure the Object Does Not Turn Against Itself in the Museum
Munir Fakher Eldin
13. Aesthetics Versus Context? Towards New Strategies for the Study of the Object
Martina Müller-Wiener
14. Islamic Art Versus Material Culture: Museum of Islamic Art or Museum of Islamic Culture?
Julia Gonnella
Foundation and Change:
15. Subthemes and Overpaint: Exhibiting Islamic Art in American Art Museums
Mary McWilliams
16. Early Islamic Art History in Germany and Concepts of Object and Exhibition
Jens Kröger
17. Islamic Art and the Invention of the “Masterpiece”: Approaches in Early Twentieth-Century Scholarship
Eva Troelenberg
18. The Jameel Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London: Working from Vision to Reality
Juliette Fritsch
19. Do You Speak Islamic Art? The Museological Laboratory
Susan Kamel, Christine Gerbich, Susanne Lanwerd
20. Museums of Islamic Art and Public Engagement
Seif El-Rashidi
21. Museums and Their Formation
Miriam Kühn
Examples from the Museum World:
22. Concepts Behind the New Installation of Islamic Art in the David Collection
Kjeld von Folsach
23. The Option of “Interim” Reinstallation: Brooklyn Museum’s Arts of the Islamic World Galleries
Ladan Akbarnia
24. The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Oliver Watson
25. Islamic Art in the Hermitage Museum: Projects and Plans
Anton D. Pritula
26. Islamic Art at the British Museum: Strategies and Perspectives
Fahmida Suleman
27. The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto
Benoît Junod
28. New Spaces for Old Treasures: Plans for the New Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum
Stefan Weber
29. “A Wooden Room with Many Doors…”: Social, Physical and Intellectual Accessibility at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin
Christine Gerbich
Notes on Contributors
Notes
Sources
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Index