Exchange: Youth and Sexuality in the Middle East

Youth and Sexuality in the Middle East

A color photograph of a young girl standing with her hands clasped, facing the viewer. She is wearing a pink dress with a yellow collar. In the background, tents and a clothesline are visible. A person cooks over a fire.

Peter Turnley
Kurdish Refugees from Iraq, the Gulf War, Southern Turkey, 1991
archival pigment print on paper
13 ½ in x 20 in (34.29 cm x 50.8 cm);20 in x 24 in (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)
Gift of Kathleen Lauster and Jarir Derouach

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This painted miniature Shahnama page was made by the Shiraz and Timurid schools, ca. 1460 in Baghdad, Iraq. The painting is done in ink, opaque watercolor and gold leaf on paper. The scene shown here is <em>Zal Goes to Rudaba </em>from the Shahnama, the Persian book of kings.

Iranian
Zal Goes to Rudaba, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper
10 7/16 in. x 6 15/16 in. ( 26.5 cm x 17.7 cm )
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Timurid miniature from the Shiraz and Timurid schools, ca. 1460. The painting is done in ink, opaque watercolor and gold leaf on paper. The scene depicts <em>Tahmina Comes to Rustam </em>from the Shahnama of Firdausi, the Persian book of kings.

Iranian
Tahmina Comes to Rustam, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper
10 3/8 in. x 6 15/16 in. ( 26.4 cm x 17.6 cm )
Museum Purchase

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Portrait of a middle-aged woman. She looks into the camera lens; her dark hijab disappears into the dark background. Persian calligraphy is inscribed subtly over her skin in ink.

Shirin Neshat
Ghada
digital pigment print on paper
24 in x 16 1/2 in (60.96 cm x 41.91 cm);26 in x 17 1/2 in (66.04 cm x 44.45 cm)
Gift of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Nude woman reclining with a veil covering her face.

Hosain Mosavat
Veiled
gelatin silver print on paper
9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. ( 24.13 cm x 19.05 cm )
Gift of Margaret and Howard Bond

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Iranian
Book Cover, made for the 15th-century manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdausi (The "Kervorkian Shahnama")
papier mâché, paint and lacquer with leather spine
10 1/2 in. x 6 7/8 in. ( 26.7 cm x 17.5 cm )
Museum Purchase

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Marc Chagall
Arabian Nights. Pl. 2. Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweler's Wife. "They were in forty pairs, thus numbering fourscore and in their midst a young lady, riding on a horse, her face unveiled..."
color lithograph on paper
17 in x 13 in (43.18 cm x 33.02 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Stevens

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Marc Chagall
Arabian Nights. Pl. l. Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweller's Wife. "The boy displayed to the Dervish his bosom, saying, 'Look at my breasts which be goodlier than the breasts of maidens and my lipdews are sweeter than sugar candy...' "
1948
color lithograph | paper
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Stevens
1949/1.153

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A color photograph featuring a soldier's back on the left, rifle prominent, and a young girl in a yellow dress on the right. She holds a hand and stares at the viewer. In the background, a man holds his arms up in front of another soldier.

Peter Turnley
The War in Iraq, Near Basra, Iraq, 2003
2003
archival pigment print | paper
Gift of Kathleen Lauster and Jarir Derouach
2016/2.536

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The moulded head of the terracotta figurine represents a royal personnage. He wears a three-lobed crown, spherical earrings, and a necklace. He is seated with his legs bent from the hips at right angles to the upper part of the body. The legs are crossed and thus form a circular base which allows the essentially two-dimensional figure to remain erect. The assembling of the limbs was apparently done after the figurine had been cast.

Iranian
Seated figure with tripartite crown
terracotta
4 3/4 in. x 2 3/4 in. x 2 3/8 in. ( 12 cm x 7 cm x 6 cm )
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Pen and ink drawing of nude woman, presumably dead or in the act of dying, stretched between floor and chair, with a man bending over her head and torso. In interior domestic space.

George Grosz
A Murder
pen and ink with watercolor on wove paper
7 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in. ( 19.05 cm x 21.59 cm )
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection

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A photograph of a female head made of pasta and marinara sauce printed on a porcelain plate. On verso, the plate is numbered "39;" it is labeled part of "The Peter Norton Family Christmas Project" and dated 1999; the manufacturer is labeled "Made in Bernardaud in Limoges, France;" and, below, it reads "Lead Free Dishwasher Safe."

Vik Muniz
Untitled (Medusa Marinara)
photograph on glazed porcelain
12 ½ in x 12 ½ in x 1 ¼ in (31.75 cm x 31.75 cm x 3.18 cm);12 ½ in x 12 ½ in x 1 ¼ in (31.75 cm x 31.75 cm x 3.18 cm)
Gift of the Peter Norton Family Foundation

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