Decontextualization and the search for origins: A Persian architectural fragment in the Ackland Art Museum
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Lyla Halsted
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Anderson, Glaire D.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
82
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Committee members: Magee, Carol; Sherman, Daniel J.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-81153-6
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
Art History
Body granting the degree
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Text preceding or following the note
2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina acquired a stone fragment from Mr. and Mrs. Osbourne Hauge in 1998. This piece has been referred to since as a "Stone Balustrade with Animal and Vegetal Decoration" by the museum. The museum catalogue emphasizes the aesthetic qualities of the piece rather than its nature as an architectural fragment due to a lack of information about the object's origins. In order to move beyond the lost provenance of the object, I will analyze its relation to similar fragments in the Metropolitan Museum, Cleveland Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the David Collection in Copenhagen. I will incorporate fragments from the Hegmataneh Hill Museum (in Hamadan, Iran) in order to expand the corpus of known fragments beyond Euro-American collections. This thesis will examine these objects in relation to their current contexts and as a network of pieces rather than decontextualized fragments.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Art history; Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Hamadan;Iran;Islam;Museums;Persia