Webinar: "Myth to Art: New Perspectives on Anatolian Kilims" with Ali Rıza Tuna, Collector, Independent Scholar, Author, Geneva, Switzerland. Virtual via Zoom. Saturday, January 14, 2023, 10 am pt / 1 pm et / 6 pm gmt - London. Co-sponsored by Textile Museum Associates of Southern California and New England Rug Society. Free Registration: https://tinyurl.com/TMATunaKilimsrrbt Anatolian kilims impress at first sight by their colors and the abstract expressivity of their designs, but they also imply more to the mind than what is seen by the eye. What makes a “kilim design” immediately recognizable among other designs? What mental processes create that “style” of motifs? Which characteristics define the kilim’s aesthetics and their agency on the observer? What are the keys to the communication that happens between us and a kilim despite our ignorance of its symbolic language? What is it about kilims that makes us even project our own myths over their forms? As a collector and researcher of Anatolian textiles over the last four decades, Ali Rıza Tuna addresses these questions by revisiting some fundamental paradigms used in kilim studies in his recent book “From Myth to Art: Anatolian Kilims”. This program summarizes this new art historical approach based on scholarly ideas emerging since the early 20th century in the field of the “anthropology of art” and, more specifically, in the “anthropology of images” by authors such as Franz Boas, Ernst Cassirer, and Hans Belting. Free Registration: https://tinyurl.com/TMATunaKilimsrrbt See the Tma/Sc Newsletter, with listings of virtual programs of other organizations and institutions, plus exhibitions and online articles, videos and recordings from all over the world: https://tinyurl.com/TMATunaKilimsrr