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DESCRIPTION:Barbara Karl will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on M
 onday\, October 6\, 2014\, from 12 to 1:30pm.  Her talk is entitled “Rarit
 y-Booty-Furnishing: Textiles from the Islamic World and Habsburg Collectin
 g (16th to 18th Century).”Karl’s talk at the BGC will be about two intertw
 ined research foci: material exchange between East and West during the ear
 ly modern period and the history of collecting and reception of exotic obj
 ects in Europe\, especially imperial Habsburg collecting. The “red thread”
  of the talk will be the history of Habsburg collecting during the 16th an
 d 17th centuries\, and the different types of collected objects (for examp
 le\, Bengal embroideries\, mother-of-pearl-chests\, and weapons) and the p
 laces of collecting will be woven into this narrative. The second part of 
 the talk—related to the first—is a case study of two Ottoman silk flags th
 at were captured upon and after the siege of Vienna in 1683. As spoils of 
 war\, they were subsequently involved in the courtly games of protocol and
  vanities.Barbarba Karl is Curator of Textiles and Carpets at the MAK-Muse
 um für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst in Vienna. She will be a Research 
 Fellow at Bard Graduate Center from October to November 2014. Karl studied
  art history and languages at the University of Innsbruck\, Universidade N
 ova of Lisbon\, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris\, and the University
  of Vienna from where she received her Ph.D. in 2004 on the topic of India
 n textile production for the Portuguese market during the 16th and 17th ce
 nturies. She held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Scuola Normale Superio
 re in Pisa where she undertook a project on Medici collecting of objects f
 rom the Islamic world. From 2008 to 2010\, she was a researcher at the Aus
 trian Academy of Sciences with a project that resulted in the book Treasur
 y-Kunstkammer-Museum: Objects from the Islamic World in the Museum Collect
 ions of Vienna (Vienna: Verl. d. österr. Akademie d. Wissenschaften\, 2011
 ). Since 2010\, Karl has curated smaller exhibitions on fashion accessorie
 s\, Chinese textiles\, and in 2014 the reinstallation of the world famous 
 carpet collection. She has published articles on the networks of artistic 
 exchange between East and West during the early modern period\, including 
 Italian merchants as mediators of Indian art\, Indian export textiles and 
 mother-of-pearl items\, Ottoman flags as booty items in Vienna\, and Ottom
 an saddle covers in the Ambras Kunstkammer. While in residence at the BGC\
 , Karl will continue to work on projects focusing on the history of collec
 ting carpets and Indian chintz beds at the imperial Habsburg court in Vien
 na during the 17th and 18th centuries.Coffee and tea will be served\; atte
 ndees are welcome to bring their own lunch.RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Rarity-Booty-Furnishing:
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