Kamal al Mulk & the Invention of the Modern Iranian Landscape
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/06/18
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Layla Diba spoke about Kamal al Mulk, Iran's first modern painter in the 19th century Qajar dynasty and the modernizing trends in Iranian contemporary painting tradition. Speaker Biography: Layla Diba is an independent scholar, art advisor, former chief curator of the Negarestan Museum in Tehran (1975-79) and the Hagop Kevorkian Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7973
