Prof. Finbarr Barry Flood’s lecture on “Faces in Flower: Redrawing the figure in early modern Islamic art”.
Professor Finbarr Barry Flood is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University. He published a book on Islamic architectural history and historiography, cross-cultural dimension of Islamic art, image theory, technologies of representation, and Orientalism.
His lecture considered a number of rare but visually striking images in which human figures were represented as, or transformed into, flowers.