Conjunctions of Islam: rethinking the geographies of art and piety through the notebooks of Ahmet Süheyl Ünver.
How should we understand the relationship between artistic practice and religious devotion? This paper answers that question through a close engagement with the archive of the artist, teacher, doctor, and writer Ahmet Süheyl Ünver (b. 1898–d. 1986). Working from notebooks and archival files produced...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Geographies Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 355 - 373 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jul2023
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