User:Munfarid1/Wendy Shaw (art historian)

Wendy M. K. Shaw (* ) is an American professor of art history, specializing in the history and current perceptions of Islamic culture s in academic studies and public discourse. She is Professor of the Art History of Islamic cultures at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Biography
Shaw graduated with a Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles, in 1999.

Her work focuses on the impact of colonial history on art-related institutions, modern art and discourses of perception,

Select publications

 * Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire (2003) University of California Press.


 * Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. (IB Tauris, 2011),


 * What is “Islamic” Art: Between Religion and Perception ( Cambridge University Press