Flirting with the Radical: Painting and Poetry in Later Safavid Iran
A Lecture by Michael Chagnon
Monday, April 29 | 7 pm
Brown Auditorium | Free, reservation required by April 26 to Jilana
Stewart at amec@lacma.org or 323
857-6011.
“By the middle of the seventeenth century, eros had emerged as a major theme of Persian
painting. Bold or hidden, sometimes strange and often humorous,
references to the erotic in later Safavid
painting and drawing have been understood variously as expressions of
lyrical beauty, metaphors for mystical union, or documents of social
realities. This informal and lavishly illustrated talk will take a
different approach, considering Safavid
depictions of the erotic as a corollary to radical experiments in both the
composition and reading of poetry during this period.”
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