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Colour in Islam (online, 22-23 Oct 21)
online / Center for Advanced Studies Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Eva-Maria Troelenberg
Colour in Islam: Understanding Textual and Visual Historiographies of Colour in Inter-Disciplinary Perspective
Workshop organized Dr. Teresa Bernheimer (LMU) and Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Troelenberg (Utrecht University)
How we understand and use colour says a great deal about our view and experience of the world.
What is the colour of the sky? Can the description of colour be objective? How do language and vision relate in this process? Colours can be a feature of an object, an abstract idea, expression of an emotion, political symbol, practical signal, or indeed a material, a product or even a status sym- bol: In the study of Islam, there have been few explorations of this hugely fascinating subject.
Even the rapidly growing and specializing field of Islamic art history has only recently started to look systematically into the issue of colour. Bringing together textual and visual approaches from Islamic Studies, Art History and neighbouring disciplines, this workshop aims to explore colour as a ‘blind spot’ in the modern academic historiography of Islamic arts and cultures.
Programm October 22, 2021 10am-10.30am
Welcome and Introductions: Julia Schreiner (CAS), Teresa Bernheimer (LMU), Eva-Maria Troelen- berg (Utrecht University)
10.30am-12.30am
Panel 1: Colour, Terminologies and Taxonomy Chair: Teresa Bernheimer (Munich)
Francesco Zamboni (Pisa / Naples): How Many Colours Exist? Models of Colour Intensification in Medieval Islamic Philosophy
Geert Jan van Gelder (Haren, the Netherlands / Oxford): Colour Terminology in Classical Arabic Regula Forster (Tübingen): “Blackening”, “Whitening”, and “Reddening”. Colours in Arabic Alchemy Nicolas Payen (Munich): The Colours of Animals in Arabic Philology
12.30-13.30 break 13.30-15.30
Panel 2: Materiality and Colour Chair: Sheila Blair (Boston)
Iman Aghajani (Bamberg): The Role of Colour in Seljuq architecture in Iran with Regard to Stucco
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Decoration
Ana Marija Grbanovic (Bamberg): Far from Eye, far from Heart: Some Notes Concerning Ilkhanid Stucco Polychromy
Mandana Barkeshli (Melbourne): Symbolic Meanings of Colours in Ali Seyrafi’s Golzār-e Ṣafā Mojtaba Khorandi et al (Hamburg): A Comparison of Colour Materials in 15th-Century Persian Paintings
15.30-16.00 break 16.00-17.30
Panel 3: Colour, Stereotype and Meaning Chair: Ilse Sturkenboom (Munich)
Alain George (Oxford): Polychromy, Polysemy and Whiteness in Islamic Art: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Georg Leube (Bayreuth/Hamburg): Black and White Stereotypes? Colour and the (Mis)-Representa- tion of the ‘Turkmen’ Dynasties of the Qara- and Aqquyunlu
Michael Payne (Munich): The Blackness of al-Jāḥiẓ 18.00
Keynote: Prof Christian Lange (Utrecht): Colour and Sensation in Muslim Cultures Chair: Teresa Bernheimer and Eva-Maria Troelenberg
October 23, 2021:
10.00-12.00
Panel 4: (Re-)Discovering the Palette Chair: Eva-Maria Troelenberg (Utrecht)
Nazli Songülen (Istanbul): A New Palette: Changing Colours in the Refurbishment of Istanbul’s Royal Palaces in the 1740s
Francine Giese and Sarah Tabbal (Vitrocentre Romont): Discovering the Colours of the East: Islam- ic Stucco Glass Windows in Textual and Visual Sources of the 19th and early 20th Centuries Maryam Mohammadgholipour (Tehran) and Eric Kirchner (Sassenheim): Digitizing the Colour Map- ping of Safavid Architecture
12.00-13.00 break 13.00-14.30
Working with Colour, working on Colour: Insights from the Workshop Chair: Patricia Blessing (Princeton)
Eva Troelenberg (Utrecht): Canonisation and Colour Prints: The Munich Exhibition "Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art" 1910 and its Image Politics.
Franziska Lampe (ZI, Munich): “Alle Töne etwas heller” – Insights from the Bruckmann Image Archive on Colour Plates for the Exhibition on 'Muhammadan Art'
Eric Kirchner (Sassenheim): The Development of Colour Science in the Islamic world: A reap- praisal and Insights
14.30-15.00 Closing Remarks
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Contact:
Center for Advanced Studies
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Registration required. If you are interested in participating please contact us:
info@cas.lmu.de
https://www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de/events/conferences/ws_bernheimer_troelenberg/in- dex.html
Reference:
CONF: Colour in Islam (online, 22-23 Oct 21). In: ArtHist.net, Oct 18, 2021 (accessed Feb 27, 2022),
<https://arthist.net/archive/35114>.
