For over 30 years, the Dalhousie Art Gallery has been publishing books and catalogues, documenting exhibitions and contributing to the critical discourse.
Guest curator Hans-Gunther Schwartz, a professor in the German Department, organized this exhibition of Persian carpets (from Caucasus between the Caspian and Black Sea, from Turkoman tribes of central Asia and from India, Pakistan and Turkey) to explore the history, techniques and varieties of carpet-making in the East. The carpets were on loan from private collectors in Halifax, Dartmouth and Montreal, and from institutes in Montreal and Toronto.
Eighteenth century prints on loan from the National Gallery of Canada, Alverthorpe Gallery, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Fogg Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Rose Art Museum in conjunction with the conference of 18th Century Studies held at Dalhousie University.
