Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art re-addresses the role of the American pioneer in the study of Persian cultural heritage - Arthur Upham Pope (1881–1969) - in the development of Persian art scholarship and connoisseurship during the twentieth century.
Author(s): Yuka Kadoi
Series: Studies in Persian Cultural History, 10
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 441
City: Leiden
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art
Part 1 Pope, Ackerman, and Their Peers
Chapter 2 The Scramble for Persian Art: Pope and His Rivals
Chapter 3 Gendered Politics of Persian Art: Pope andHis Partner
Part 2 Arthur Upham Pope: Life and Achievements
Chapter 4 Arthur Upham Pope: His Life and Times
Chapter 5 Archaeology in Iran and the Experience of Arthur Upham Pope
Chapter 6 Arthur Upham Pope and the Study of Persian Islamic Architecture
Part 3 Curators, Collectors, and Art Dealers: Pope and Pre-Islamic Persian Art
Chapter 8 Arthur Upham Pope and the Sasanians
Part 4 Curators, Collectors, and Art Dealers: Pope and Islamic Persian Art
Chapter 9 The Rise of Persian Art Connoisseurship: Arthur Upham Pope and Early Twentieth-Century Chicago
Chapter 10 Arthur Upham Pope and Collecting Persian Art for Kansas City
Chapter 11 Equivocal Position as Expert or Dealer! The Long and Contentious Relationship of George Hewitt Myers and Arthur Upham Pope
Chapter 12 My Dear Holmes: Arthur Upham Pope and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Chapter 13 Filming, Photographing and Purveying in ‘The New Iran’: The Legacy of Stephen H. Nyman, ca. 1937–42
Part 5 Arthur Upham Pope: His Legacy
Chapter 14 Surveying Persian Art in Light of A Survey of Persian Art
Chapter 15 Arthur Upham Pope: A Personal Memoir
Index
