Bard College ART HISTORY and VISUAL CULTURE PROGRAM

Posted on April 15th, 2011

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Asia Society Exhibition

Patricia Karetzky reviews: A Prince’s Manuscript Unbound: Muhammad Juki’s ‘Shahnamah’
725 Park Avenue and East 70th Street
February 9 – May 1, 2011

The show at the Asia Society Museum exhibits a very excellent illustrated Persian manuscript dating to the 15th century. The tome, on loan from the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, is an illuminated 15th-century volume. Commissioned by the Timurid prince Muhammad Juki (1402-1444), it has more than 30 delicate, polychrome and gold miniatures that are scenes  from the Shahnamah (Book of Kings). In book formation the illustrations are accompanied by long passages of beautifully written text. Often set in landscapes, the works are lively interpretations of the privileged life of the Timurd princes – their costumes, jewels, weapons, palaces and more.

A second show slated for Exhibition at the Asia Society Museum on Gandharan Art, largely Buddhist stone bas relief sculptures dating from the 2nd to 4th century CE, has been indefinitely postponed due to difficulties with lenders in Pakistan.

Vitrine Project

Peggy Bacon: Illustrator

Peggy Bacon: Illustrator

Show curated by the students in Tom Wolf’s seminar American Women Artists

Peggy Bacon, Kitten

Stevenson Library, Bard College
Faculty Advisor: Tom Wolf

Wednesday April 20-May 8

Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20, 5-7 pm

Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) was an American painter, printmaker, writer and illustrator.