IN THE CENTRAL SYRIAN DESERT, 2006. PHOTO: DR FIONA HILL. - TAASA Review December 2011

IN THE CENTRAL SYRIAN DESERT, 2006. PHOTO: DR FIONA HILL. – TAASA Review December 2011

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This article was originally found in the December 2011 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 17).

The full article is available for free to TAASA Members.

For people like me with very specialised areas of interest within the general field of the arts of Asia, TAASA has been the proverbial godsend for two main reasons.

Firstly, after returning to Australia after lengthy periods of living and working in the thick of things overseas, the gap in institutional collections and curatorial focus in some areas of Asian art in Australia could seem insurmountable.

This has seemed at times especially so in my own field of Islamic art and culture...