Margaret Susanna Graves

Margaret Graves works on the histories of art and artmaking in the Islamic world. At the IAS, she will work on her book "Technologies of Impress: The Poetics of Absence and the Limits of Art History", about the instruments of impress: stamps, seals, punches, dies, moulds, and matrices. Her book explores craft histories and their reflections in Islamicate intellectual history, as well as the challenges these technologies present to art history.