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DESCRIPTION:David Roxburgh will be coming to speak at the Ravi and Seran\nT
 rehan Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture on Tuesday\, April 30\,
  2013.\nHis talk is entitled “Baysunghur’s Garden Party and Other Tales:\n
 Conceptualizing Artistic and Cultural Production in Early Timurid Herat.”
 \n\nDavid Roxburgh is the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic A
 rt History and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Hist
 ory of Art and Architecture at Harvard University\, where he has been teac
 hing since 1996. He also taught at the École des hautes études en sciences
  sociales\, Paris\, as a visiting professor in 2003. Roxburgh received an 
 M.A. in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh and an M.A. and Ph.D. in
  the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania. His books include
  Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran
  (Leiden: Brill\, 2001) and The Persian Album\, 1400-1600: From Dispersal 
 to Collection (New Haven: Yale University Press\, 2005). Roxburgh has also
  worked as a curator on the exhibitions Turks: A Journey of A Thousand Yea
 rs\, 600-1600 (Royal Academy of Art\, London\, 2005) and Traces of the Cal
 ligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice\, c. 1600-1900 (The Museum of F
 ine Arts\, Houston\, 2007-2008\; Asia Society\, New York\, 2008-2009\; Mic
 hael C. Carlos Museum\, Emory University 2010). His articles take a variet
 y of approaches to the study of aesthetics\, art and culture of the book\,
  history of collections\, and written sources.The artistic and literary ac
 tivities of Baysunghur (d.\n1433)—son of Shahrukh\, grandson of Timur—as b
 oth patron and practitioner have\nlong been recognized as models of excell
 ence. Contemporaries and later rulers\nand princes emulated Baysunghur’s m
 odel of courtly patronage\, especially his\nbibliophilism\, but also fashi
 oned an image of the prince as Maecenas through a\nrich corpus of written 
 texts that include histories\, biographies\, and album\nprefaces. The effe
 cts of a physical\, material legacy only seemed to confirm the\nwritten so
 urces without much criticism of a model of production that assumed\nBaysun
 ghur’s direct agency in the shaping and formation of a cultural program.\n
 The lecture reviews the various forms of evidence about cultural and artis
 tic\nproduction in Herat from the 1420s to early 1430s and sets Baysunghur
 ’s\nactivities within a wider political context.Light refreshments will be
  served at 5:45 pm. The\npresentation will begin at 6:00 pm. RSVP is requi
 red. PLEASE NOTE that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate\na limited num
 ber of people\, so please come early if you would like to have a\nseat in 
 the main room.  We also have overflow seating available\; all\nregistrants
  who arrive late will be seated in the overflow area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Baysunghur’s Garden Party and Other Tales: Co
 nceptualizing Artistic and Cultural Production in Early Timurid Herat
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