The Portrait in Contemporary Islamic Art, Panel at the Midwest Art History Society Conference

The Portrait in Contemporary Islamic Art
Midwest Art History Society Conference, Cincinnati, OH, March 21-23, 2019

This session examines portraiture in contemporary art from the Islamic World and its diaspora. Papers are welcome that investigate any aspect of portraiture, including how contemporary artists are using portraiture to examine notions of power and propaganda, gender roles, notions of aniconism in Islam, as well as those artists whose work reimagines the format of the portrait.

Chair: Sascha Crasnow, Lecturer, Islamic Arts, University of Michigan, scrasnow@umich.edu
Conference presentations are expected to be under twenty minutes long. Proposals of no more than 250 words and a two-page CV should be emailed to the chairs of individual sessions. 
See the MAHS website for more details: https://www.mahsonline.org/conference/
Questions can be emailed to scrasnow@umich.edu

**Deadline December 14, 2018**