Books by Margaret Graves
Margaret S. Graves, Sequoia Miller, Magdalene Odundo and Vicki Parry, Ceramic Art (Princeton University Press, 2023), 2023
Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean, 2022
Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam, 2018
Journal articles by Margaret Graves
Iran: journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, Jan 1, 2008
The Journal of North African Studies, Jan 1, 2007
The present paper is one part of a larger research project undertaken on a group of nineteenth-ce... more The present paper is one part of a larger research project undertaken on a group of nineteenth-century Moroccan ceramics in the collection of the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The scholarly interest in such wares has to date been biased towards ethnographic studies and formal cataloguing of types. Such approaches have an important place in the study of visual cultures, and indeed a study of forms and decorative types represented within the RMS collection is currently being prepared by the present author. However, a purely formalistic approach reveals virtually nothing of how an object has been viewed by successive audiences, and thus ignores a huge part of its visual existence. In the study of nineteenth-century Moroccan wares there is a gift to the art historian in the sheer volume of travel literature that was written by Europeans and particularly Britons in the nineteenth century, allowing an unusually clear reconstruction of the way in which such pieces were understood by those who collected them and brought them to Britain. In the present study, the means by which the wares of nineteenth-century Morocco entered the British and European visual consciousness, and the implications of the responses they drew from British audiences as attested by the comments of nineteenth-century travel writers, are examined in detail to create a new art-historical discourse of material culture in the colonial Maghreb.
Articles in ed. vols by Margaret Graves
The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art, 2024
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Beate Fricke, ed., Holy Smoke: Censers Across Cultures, 2023
Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning: Studies in Honor of Robert Hillenbrand, 2022
Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean, ed. Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman (Indiana University Press, 2022), 2022
Arabesque Without End: Across Music and the Arts, from Faust to Shahrazad (Routledge, 2021)
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Books by Margaret Graves
Journal articles by Margaret Graves
Articles in ed. vols by Margaret Graves