Nouruz Lecture – Looking Back at 1925: A Milestone in Persian Art
Ein Vortrag von Dr. Yuka Kadoi (Universität Wien) in der 4MZ-Reihe "Kulturen des Islam: Aktuelle Forschung"
29.04.2025
Zeit: Dienstag, 29.04.2025, 18:00 Uhr
Ort: Hörsaal M 010, Hauptgebäude der LMU, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz
Exactly 100 years ago, the American scholar Arthur Upham Pope (1881–1969) delivered a Nowruz lecture in Tehran on the occasion of his first visit to Iran. Entitled, “The Past and Future of Persian Art”, this lecture marks a turning point in the history of Persian art. The aesthetic criteria that Pope underlined in this lecture and his writings around 1925 for assessing the importance of cultural remains from modern Iran influenced the way many people worldwide came to understand the art, architecture and material culture of the Persian world at that time. My 2025 Nowruz lecture revisits the significance of this lecture by reconsidering the impact of those criteria on our thinking today.
Programm der 4MZ-Reihe "Kulturen des Islam: Aktuelle Forschung"