Islamic Art and the Museum. Approaches to Art and Archaeology of the Muslim World in the Twenty-First Century

Abstract

"The volume ... emerged from the conference Layers of Islamic Art and the Museum Context, which took place at the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin 13-16 January 2010 and was funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture"--Title page verso. Museums covered in detail include the David Collection, Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World Galleries, Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Hermitage Museum, British Museum, Aga Khan Museum in Toronto and the Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum. Islamic art and the museum / Benoît Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber, Gerhard Wolf -- The role of the museum in the study and knowledge of Islamic art / Oleg Grabar -- A concert of things: thoughts on objects of Islamic art in the museum context / Stefan Weber -- The concept of Islamic art: inherited discourses and new approaches / Gülru Necipoğlu -- Islamic art at a crossroads? / Nasser Rabbat -- Intrinsic goals and external influence: on some factors affecting research and presentation of Islamic art / Lorenz Korn -- The study of Islamic art at a crossroads, and humanity as a whole / Kirsten Scheid -- Preliminary thoughts on an entangled presentation of "Islamic art" / Vera Beyer -- Multivalent paradigms of interpretation and the aura or anima of the object / Avinoam Shalem -- The stuff of history: everyday objects, the construction of ambiguous meanings, and the "afterlife" of social things / Christian Sassmannshausen -- The cultural turn, the spatial turn and the writing of Midde Eastern history / Gudrun Krämer -- The power of layers or the layers of power? The social lfie of things as the backbone of new narratives / Beshara Doumani -- A historian's task: make sure the object does not turn against itself in the museum / Munir Fakher Eldin -- Aesthetics versus context? Towards new strategies for the study of the object / Martina Müller-Wiener -- Islamic art versus material culture: museum of Islamic art or museum of Islamic culture? / Julia Gonnella -- Subthemes and overpaint: exhibiting Islamic art in American art museums / Mary McWilliams -- Early Islamic art history in Germany and concepts of object and exhibition / Jens Kröger -- Islamic art and the invention of the "masterpiece": approaches in early twentieth-century scholarship / Eva Troelenberg -- The Jameel Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London: working from vision to reality / Juliette Fritsch -- Do you speak Islamic art? The museological laboratory / Christine Gerbich, Susan Kamel, Susanne Lanwerd -- Museums of Islamic art and public engagement / Seif El-Rashidi -- Museums and their formation / Miriam Kühn -- Concepts behind the new installation of Islamic art in the David Collection / Kjeld von Folsach -- The option of "interim" reinstallation: Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World galleries / Ladan Akbarnia -- The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha / Oliver Watson -- Islamic art in the Heritage Museum: projects and plans / Anton D. Pritula -- Islamic art at the British Museum: strategies and perspectives / Fahmida Suleman -- The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto / Benoît Junod -- New spaces for old treasures: plans for the new Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum / Stefan Weber -- "A wooden room with many doors ... ": social, physical and intellectual accessibility at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin / Christine Gerbich.