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Comment on Visiting the Naef Collection by Desiree mejer

Desiree mejer — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:23:43 +0000

Mmhh…pity…! Very interesting guy…
I mentioned your site to my friend mr.Tiziano Meglioranzi from Verona…and he seems to know you…
Small world.
Will send you pics when I find them…. Cheers

Comment on Visiting the Naef Collection by Nigel Lendon

Nigel Lendon — Sun, 05 May 2013 23:10:36 +0000

Dear Desiree Many thanks for the comment. I have tried but have not been able to find any contacts for Graham. I would very much like to see any pictures you have of your carpets. My email is iconophilia(at)gmail.com

Comment on Visiting the Naef Collection by Desiree mejer

Desiree mejer — Sun, 05 May 2013 22:46:16 +0000

I bought two rugs from mr. Graham Bacon in london end 80s. He had a wonderful exhibition in Tobacco Docks I think it was called transitional art… He told me great stories about how they were made and how he got them. I was really young and had to save to buy them… Glad to see his name appearing here. Would like to contact him again. I have nice pictures.
DM

Comment on on interpreting the 9/11 commemorative carpets by on interpreting the 9/11 memorial carpets | iconophilia

on interpreting the 9/11 memorial carpets | iconophilia — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:18:34 +0000

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Comment on the value of ephemera by Anti-Soviet Realism | iconophilia

Anti-Soviet Realism | iconophilia — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:41:33 +0000

[...] wearing a pakol and bearing a flag bearing the inscription Allahu Akhbar! stands in front of the Paghman Victory Arch, which was built in 1919 to celebrate the defeat of that other Imperial Power, Great Britain. In [...]

Comment on Could this be the mystery bridge? by Crossing the Friendship Bridge « Railways of Afghanistan

Crossing the Friendship Bridge « Railways of Afghanistan — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:11:11 +0000

[...] is photo of the Russians leaving in 1989 (here is a news report from the Guardian archive), and also a rug design possibly inspired by the [...]

Comment on The Afghan Modern, its anonymous authors, and the question of collective agency. by christiane kalantari

christiane kalantari — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:58:53 +0000

Dear Nigel Lendon, Dominika made me aware of your informative website! this is only to congratulate you on the idea to analyze the map of Afghanistan carpets. Maybe I have overseen it in your texts, but wouldn’t it be good to interview designers of such carpets in order to learn what their intentions are? In particular the map carpet with the ring-road and the country represented as an island on a blue background is fascinating: you may already be aware of the citations from the highpoint of manuscript illumination tradition during Safavid period (which geographically included Herat in the 16th c.). The Shahname of Tahmasp in the Aga Khan collection (AKM 00164), to name only one example, depicts a village on the Persian gulf; many elements of the pictorial mode such as high horizon, architectural elements of clusters of buildings, the layering of landscape elements, with chines-style mountain configurations, trees on the borders; the isolation of the setting is comparable to other illuminations in the same MS and the the placement of text cartouches on the borders is omnipresent in such paintings.(by the way, in Iran, where one part of my family comes from, Safavid manuscripts are cited for propaganda murals, to be found in Tehran!). I can send you an image if you are interested.)
I find your comparison of another carpet with bank notes quite convincing!
hope my comment makes sense to you!
best wishes from Vienna
christiane

Comment on the anonymous art conundrum by The Afghan Modern, its anonymous authors, and the question of collective agency. «

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:44:46 +0000

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Comment on The Cosmorama Carpet by where atlas carpets come from (part 2) «

where atlas carpets come from (part 2) « — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:25:17 +0000

[...] Warning: this is NOT an exhibition of Alighiero Boetti’s Mappa. But it suggests an obvious source for the parallel tradition of atlas carpets: here we see walls covered with atlases is a girl’s school room (which had been closed by the Taliban) in Herat. This is a still from a BBC documentary shot in Herat in 1996. Part one of this discussion may be found here. [...]

Comment on worlds in collision by photohistory | iconophilia

photohistory | iconophilia — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:56:33 +0000

[...] What makes this one of the most significant photographs of the twentieth century? Taken in Kandahar by Peter Jouvenal in 1996, this fragment of a film clip is spellbinding. It depicts the Mullah Omah enacting a religious ceremony – one that was to have huge consequences for the fin de siecle. Sometimes a photograph is significant simply because it exists, and because it makes history. You can read the full story over at rugsofwar… [...]