Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)

Events 2009-2010

On the Border of Two Periods. Persian Art in the Qajar Era (1796-1925), exhibition interiors the Persian culture in the Moslem age preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Iván Szántó wrote several articles for the volume. In The Demise of Persian Book Painting, he discusses the emptying of the tradition of the miniature, the classical genre of Persian traditional book illumination and its interactions with European art. His New Possibilities of Visual Representation elaborates the transformation of the artistic approach, printed books replacing manuscripts, graphic works and photos replacing the illumination, portraits and landscapes taking the place of miniatures. In his Lacquerware and Related Genres Iván Szántó introduces lacquer painting that could be seen as the only true successor to miniature painting. In To Take Photos in Persian Károly Kineses sums up the work of photographers living in Persia and Iranian photographers in the 19th century, with special regard to the most outstanding figure of Persian photography, the ruler. In their 146