indonesian_open Islamic art in SEA - visiting speaker

[Wittman, Leonie]

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Some of you may be interested in the following events.

 

Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology Seminar Series
Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney

 

 

VISIT OF DR ANNABEL TEH GALLOP

Head of the South and Southeast Asia section, British Library, London

Dr Gallop will be visiting Sydney as the Dr S.T.Lee Lecturer for 2007.

She will deliver The Dr S.T. Lee Annual Lecture in Asian Art &
Archaeology on Tuesday 26 June at 4pm at the University. 

 

PLEASE SEE REVISED DETAILS BELOW

 

Dr Lee Seng Tee was born in 1923 in Singapore. He is a director of the
Lee Group of Companies - Lee Rubber Co., Lee Pineapple Co., Singapore
Investments, and the Lee Foundation, in the Republic of Singapore. He is
a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and has had
a life-long association with tertiary education. His father, Dr Lee Kong
Chian, was Chancellor of the University of Singapore from 1962-1965. Lee
Seng Tee has made many benefactions to Academic and Research
institutions worldwide. In addition to sponsoring the annual lecture in
Asian Art & Archaeology at the University of Sydney, Dr Lee generously
supports the work of the Sydney University team at Angkor.

 

Dr Annabel Teh Gallop was brought up in Brunei Darussalam and studied at
Bristol University and at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
London University. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled Malay seal
inscriptions: a study in Islamic epigraphy from Southeast Asia, and she
is currently preparing for publication a catalogue of Malay seals. She
joined the British Library in 1986 as Curator for Indonesian and Malay,
and is at present Head of the South and Southeast Asia section. Her main
research interests are in Malay manuscripts, letters, documents and
seals; chancery and diplomatic practice in the Malay world; and the book
arts of Islamic Southeast Asia. 

 

Dr Gallop has published three books: Early views of Indonesia: drawings
from the British Library (the British Library, 1995); The legacy of the
Malay letter / Warisan warkah Melayu (published by the British Library
for the National Archives of Malaysia, 1994); and Golden letters:
writing traditions of Indonesia / Surat emas: budaya tulis di Indonesia,
with Bernard Arps (British Library; Jakarta: Yayasan Lontar; 1991). She
contributed the chapter 'Islamic manuscript art of Southeast Asia' to
the 2006 catalogue Crescent Moon: Islamic Art and Civilisation in
Southeast Asia (Art Gallery of South Australia).

 

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

ACAAA Seminar 

Date: Thursday 21 June 2007

Time: 4.00 pm - 5.30 pm
Location: Refectory, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney 

This seminar is free and open to the public.  Bookings not required.

 

Migrating manuscript art: Sulawesi diaspora styles of illumination

Distinctive regional styles of Islamic manuscript art from Southeast
Asia have so far been identified in Aceh; on the East Coast of the Malay
peninsula in the states of Terengganu, Kelantan and Patani; in the
Brunei-southern Philippines zone; and in various centres in Java. The
subject of this seminar is a much harder-to-define artistic school,
manifest in a small number of illuminated Qur'an manuscripts which
originate from scattered locations in the Malay world. The common thread
appears to be the south Sulawesi diaspora of Bugis/Makassar communities,
and this hypothesis has been strengthened by the recent appearance of an
'anchor' manuscript decorated in this Sulawesi style: a superb Qu'ran
copied in 1804 for Sultan Ahmad al-Salih of Bone. 

 

Symposium at the Art Gallery of NSW

Date: Friday 22 June 2007

Time: 1.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Location: Art Gallery of NSW, Domain Theatre, Lower Level 3

 

Illuminating the Word: the art of the Qur'an in Southeast Asia

Throughout the Islamic world, the finest illuminated manuscripts are
copies of the Holy Qur'an, as the supreme Book, the manuscript on which
the greatest resources, devotion, cost and effort would have been
expended in any Muslim court or society.  This is also true for
Southeast Asia, and any study of Islamic manuscript illumination in the
Malay world should start with Qur'an manuscripts. Based on a survey of
over 200 illuminated Qur'an manuscripts from Southeast Asia held in
public and private collections, this lecture will describe the regional
artistic schools identified so far, and will also highlight areas in
which we still know almost nothing: who were the artists? how did they
work?  what materials and pigments did they use? what words did they use
to describe their art? and what is it that makes a Qur'an from Southeast
Asia so distinctively 'Malay'?

 

Dr Gallop's talk will be presented as part of The Arts of Islam
Symposium in association with the Arts of Islam: Treasures from the
Nasser D. Khalili Collection exhibition of Islamic Art, Art Gallery of
NSW, 22 June - 23 September, 2007.  THE SYMPOSIUM IS NOW FULLY BOOKED.
For more information see:-
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/events/cal/arts_islam_symposium 

 

 

The University of Sydney Dr S. T. Lee Lecture in Asian Art & Archaeology
for 2007

Date: Tuesday 26 June 2007 

Time: 4.00 pm - 5.30 pm
Location: Refectory, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney 

This lecture is free and open to the public.  Bookings not required.

 

Illumination: The art of the Malay letter 

The art of the Islamic book in Southeast Asia is anchored to manuscripts
of the Qur'an - the supreme Book - for it is here that we find the
finest manifestations of manuscript art in the Malay world.  The
reverence accorded to the Holy Book and its enduring and unchanging text
accordingly exercised a profoundly conservatizing influence on Malay
book art.  Thus while the study of Islamic illumination in Southeast
Asia has succeeded in identifying a number of distinctive regional
artistic schools, there has been less success in tracing the
chronological development of this art form.

 

On the other hand, the art of the Malay letter, like many aspects of
diplomatic practice, evolved relatively quickly in constant response to
external stimuli.  Nearly one hundred illuminated royal Malay epistles
have survived, spanning a period of nearly four centuries, originating
from courts as far-flung as Ternate, Aceh and Madura, and these letters
can be studied alongside a similar number of illuminated letters in
Malay sent from European officials to Indonesian and Malay rulers.  This
reasonably substantial body of evidence enables us to begin to unravel
and identify the various influences and cross-currents that shaped Malay
letter illumination, and to arrive at a preliminary mapping of the
evolution of the art of the Malay letter.

 

 

For further information please contact:

Gabrielle Ewington

Administration Manager

Australian Centre for Asian Art & Archaeology

University of Sydney

02 9351 2870

0428 130 948               

acaaa at arts.usyd.edu.au

 

 

 

Leonie Wittman

Chief Learning Design Officer

Learning Design and Resource Development

Centre for Learning Innovation

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