Please join us in celebrating the recent publications by our esteemed colleagues Joseph Monteyne and Saygin Salgirli.
Art History
Joint Book Launch
Wednesday\, April 13\, 2022
1:00p.m.
Room 202\, Frederic Lasserre Building
6333 Memorial Road
Van
couver\, BC
Please note that face masks are still required for in door gatherings at UBC.
Joseph Monteyne is Associate Professor of Early Modern art history. His third book\, Me dia Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches\, Scraps\, and Spectres< /a> was published by University of Toronto Press this past Decembe r. Examining a wide range of late eighteenth-century British prints\, from black squares to scavenged pictures\, Monteyne addresses the challenges pos ed by reproductive technologies to traditional concepts of subjective agenc y amidst the rise of the paper age. Following Dr. Monteyne’s second book\, From Still Life to the Screen: Print Culture\, Display\, and the Materi ality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London (New Haven and London: Yale University Press\, 2013).
Saygin Salgirli is Assistant Professo r of Islamic art history. His research focuses on the medieval Mediterranea n. His first monograph\, The Fluctuating Sea: Architecture and Movemen t in the Medieval Mediterranean was published by Routledg e in late 2021. The Fluctuating Sea proposes a new perspective on architect ural history\, founded on an investigation of the generative tension betwee n movement and the particular experiences of a multiplicity of users in the fragmented microecologies of the medieval Mediterranean. This past fall Sa ygin also published a collected volume titled Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture: A Cartography of Bounda ries in and of the Field (Bloomsbury\, 2021). The volume brings together scholars with diverse methodologies-who work on a geographi cal span stretching from India to Spain and Nigeria\, and across a temporal spectrum from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century.
We look fo rward to sharing with you and celebrating the accomplishments of our collea gues!
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