On Collecting Antique Oriental Rugs

Fall (4-8 hours) | This course has been canceled

48 Lebanon Street Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Room 212

Repeat

9/25/2017-10/16/2017

10:30 AM-12:30 PM EDT on Mon

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$40.00

4 sessions, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Mondays, September 25 through October 16, 2017
Hanover Senior Center - Hanover, NH
Course Fee: $40

Why collect “oriental” rugs?
Who collects oriental rugs?
What is an oriental rug, anyway?
What rugs are “antique”?
What makes them collectible?
We’ll look at the history of rug collecting in the West, the history and development of rug collecting in America, and rug collecting around the world today.

We’ll use the stories of some significant collectors and collections to examine the motivations for collecting, and the criteria specific collectors use to guide their collecting.
We’ll look at how information and technology have affected collecting. We’ll discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of the market, and pros and cons of auctions, dealers, and online sources. We will focus almost exclusively on rugs made at least 100 years ago.

Slide lectures will be supplemented by handling of a random sampling of “collectible” examples. Many of the topics we will address offer opportunity for more in-depth exploration, but there will be no required readings.

  • There are no required textbooks for this course.

Stella Lackore was born and raised in Groningen, the Netherlands. She worked for 25 years in the Netherlands as a teacher of art and art history, and subsequently worked as an art therapist there. Her focus on Hildegard von Bingen is linked to her interest in art, philosophy, and religion as key factors informing the cultural history of civilization. She has written several published articles, and has served as a guide on many tours throughout Europe. Composer, conductor, theorist, and musicologist, Dr. Mark Nelson has over 30 years’ experience teaching music and directing music ensembles. He currently teaches a series of music appreciation seminars at the Upper Valley Music Center and directs several area ensembles. He is animated by the notion that a musician is an historian—that performance and understanding are enriched by careful consideration of the aesthetic, socio-political, and biographical contexts from which a composition emerges.