Professor Jonathan Bloom – 2019 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Lecture – 6.30pm, 14th of March 2019
A History of Paper as a Transformative Medium: from Ancient China to Contemporary Australia Professor Jonathan Bloom – Norma Jean Calderwood Professor, Islamic and Asian Art, emeritus, Boston College and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. The development and spread of paper has always opened up new cultural possibilities for recording and disseminating information: the printing and literacy revolution in early modern Europe is only the best known case. Yet the broader history of this humble and every-day item as a transformative medium has been less discussed. From its origins in China, and especially as […]
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