RESEARCH OUTPUT
Select Publications (2019-)
Monograph
Yuka Kadoi, Aesthetica Persica: The History and Historiography of Persian Art, 1900-1950 (under contract with Edinburgh University Press; forthcoming).
Book first-authored
Yuka Kadoi, with contributions by Anja Dreiser, Boaz Paz and Farouk Yahya, Objects of Reflection: Mirrors from Islamic Lands (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2025), series: Studies on The Bumiller Collection, 2 (forthcoming).
Books edited
Yuka Kadoi, co-edited with Markéta Hánová and Simone Wille, Collecting Asian Art: Cultural Politics and Transcontinental Networks in 20th-century Central Europe (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024) (https://lup.be/products/185907).
Yuka Kadoi, co-edited with Iván Szántó, The Reshaping of Persian Art: Art Histories of Islamic Iran and Beyond (Piliscsaba: Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2019) (The Reshaping of Persian Art: Art Histories of Islamic Iran and Beyond – AVICENNA INSTITUTE OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES)
Journals guest-edited
Yuka Kadoi, co-guest-edited with András Barati, ‘A Historiography of Persian Art: Past, Present and Future’, Journal of Art Historiography, Number 28 (June 2023) (https://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/28-jun23/).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Transcultural Mobility: Cosmopolitan Artefacts, Artists and Intellectuals across the Global Muslim World’, Journal of Transcultural Studies, Volume 13, Nos. 1-2 (2022) (Vol. 13 No. 1–2 (2022) | The Journal of Transcultural Studies (uni-heidelberg.de).
Chapters in books / articles in journals
Yuka Kadoi, ‘The rising sun meets the crescent moon: Japan’s modern mosques and their entanglements’, in Meaning in Islamic Art: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Bernard O'Kane, ed. Heba Mostafa, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘The Ideals of the East: Asian art and the crisis of visual expression across the globe, ca. 1900’, in Collecting Asian Art: Cultural Politics and Transcontinental Networks in 20th-century Central Europe, eds. Markéta Hánová, Yuka Kadoi and Simone Wille, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024, pp. 31-43 (Collecting Asian Art – Leuven University Press (lup.be).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘A twenty-year retrospect on “The Mirage of Islamic Art”: polarising Islamic art, consolidating Persian art’, Journal of Art Historiography, Number 28 (June 2023): A Historiography of Persian Art: Past, Present and Future, pp. 1-9 (https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/kadoi-intro.pdf).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘The (re-)birth of Ilkhanid art’, in The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History, ed. Anne Dunlop, Milan: Officina Libraria / Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023, pp. 239-263, series: I Tatti Research Series 5 (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674279162).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘In search of the wings of Surūsh: notes on the angelic fashion in the Eastern Islamic lands”, in Beiträge zur islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, Band 9, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2023, pp. 147-58 (https://doi.org/10.29091/9783752002676).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Timur's entry into Samarkand, page from the Zafarnama’, in Smarthistory (commissioned by Not Your Grandfather's Art History: A BIPOC Reader, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, USA), 2023 (https://smarthistory.org/timur-entry-samarkand-zafarnama/).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Transcultural Mobility: Cosmopolitan Artefacts, Artists and Intellectuals across the Global Muslim World’, Journal of Transcultural Studies, Volume 13, Nos. 1-2 (2022), pp. 1-5 (Transcultural Mobility: Cosmopolitan Artefacts, Artists, and Intellectuals across the Global Muslim World | The Journal of Transcultural Studies (uni-heidelberg.de).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Embracing Islam: Okakura Tenshin at the limits of his alternative Orientalism’, Journal of Transcultural Studies, Volume 13, Nos. 1-2 (2022), pp. 56-75 (Embracing Islam: Okakura Tenshin at the Limits of His Alternative Orientalism | The Journal of Transcultural Studies (uni-heidelberg.de).
Yuka Kadoi, Carpets on the move: modern trajectories of Persian woven treasures’, in The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art, ed. Radha Dalal, Sean E. Roberts and Jochen A. Sokoly (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), pp. 218-33 + 308-9 (The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Josef Strzygowski, “Das Problem der persischen Kunst”, Journal of Art Historiography, Number 21 (December 2019): The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History before and after 1918 – Part 1, pp. 1-8 (kadoi.pdf).
Select Publications on Arthur Upham Pope / Art Historiography / Collecting (2012-2018)
Books edited
Yuka Kadoi (ed.), Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art (Leiden: Brill, 2016), series: Studies in Persian Cultural History 10 (https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004309906).
Yuka Kadoi, co-edited with Iván Szántó, The Shaping of Persian Art: Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) (The Shaping of Persian Art - Cambridge Scholars Publishing).
Chapters in books / articles in journals
Yuka Kadoi, ‘A historiographical inquiry into the falsification of Persian art’, in Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference of Iranian Studies, Volume 2: Studies on Iran and the Persianate World after Islam, ed. Olga M. Yastrebova (St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Museum, 2020), pp. 122-30.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘The study of Persian art on the eve of World War II: the Third Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology in 1935’, in The Reshaping of Persian Art: Art Histories of Islamic Iran and Beyond, eds. Iván Szántó and Yuka Kadoi (Piliscsaba: Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2019), pp. 117-34.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Strzygowski and Pope: the reformulation of Persian art history across the trans-Atlantic world’, in Orient oder Rom? History and Reception of a Historiographical Myth (1901-1970), eds. Ivan Foletti and Francesco Lovino, Rome: Viella, 2018, pp. 37-49 (<em>Orient oder Rom?</em>)
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Persia through the lens: poetics and politics of architectural photographs in Pahlavi Iran’, Iranian Studies, vol. 50, no. 6 (2017), pp. 873-93 (https://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2017.1293374).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Arthur Upham Pope and a new survey of Persian art’, in Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art, ed. Yuka Kadoi, Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp. 3-12(https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004309906_002).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘The rise of Persian art connoisseurship: Arthur Upham Pope and early twentieth-century Chicago’, in Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art, ed. Yuka Kadoi, Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp. 235-65 (https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004309906_002).
Yuka Kadoi, ‘The myth-making of the Masjid-i Jamiʻ of Isfahan: Arthur Upham Pope, architectural photographs, and the Persian-Gothic thesis in the 1930s’, The Historiography of Persian Architecture, ed. Mohammad Gharipour (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 80-111 (The Historiography of Persian Architecture - 1st Edition - Mohammad Gh).
Yuka Kadoi, co- authored with Iván Szántó, ‘Why Persian art needs to be studied and collected’, in The Shaping of Persian Art: Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia, eds. Yuka Kadoi and Iván Szántó, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 2-28.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘A loan exhibition of early Oriental carpets, Chicago 1926’, in The Shaping of Persian Art: Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia, eds. Yuka Kadoi and Iván Szántó, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 254-73.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Arthur Upham Pope and his “research methods in Muhammadan art”: Persian carpets’, Journal of Art Historiography, Number 6 (June 2012): Islamic Art Historiography, pp. 1-12 (Arthur Upham Pope and his ‘research methods in Muhammadan art’:Persian carpets*).
Select Conference Papers / Public Lectures (2023-)
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Museumisation in Arabia: the reach and limits of cultural heritage’, Majlis Lecture Series, Centre for the Study of Islam, University of Exeter, 2 March 2026.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Decoding Japanese mosques: architectural confluences in the Lands of the Rising Sun’, College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah, 2 February 2026.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘André Godard and Arthur Upham Pope: two foreign giants of Persian art in Pahlavi Iran’, Patrimoine et mémoire du monde iranien: Autour des archives d’André Godard (1881-1965) et Yedda Godard (1889-1976), Musée du Louvre, Paris, 4 November 2025.
Yuka Kadoi, "The Network of Persian Art Dealership: Gulbenkian and the Second International Exhibition of Persian Art (London 1931)', Artistic Networks of Trust: Collecting and Dealing in Times of War and Diplomacy, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, 8-10 October 2025.
Yuka Kadoi, 'The Birth of the Persian Art Market: A Heritage Economy of the 20th Century', Reclaiming the Past, Shaping the Future: Heritage and Identity in the Middle East, University of Bamberg, 10-11 July 2025.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘From shrine to museum: demonumentalising Persian architectural heritage’, Matters of Knowledge: Paradigms and Practices of Conservation through the Centuries, Université de Neuchâtel, 5–6 June 2025.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Looking back at 1925: A milestone in Persian art’, Nouruz Lecture 2025, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 29 April, Munich, Germany.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Persian art through the eyes of a modernist: an alternative collecting practice of world arts, ca. 1900-1925’, Imaginierte Mustersammlung? Zur Neubewertung Sammlungen „Islamischer Künste“ in Kunstmuseen, Museum Folkwang, 24-25 April 2025, Essen, Germany.
Yuka Kadoi and Morris Rossabi, ‘The historiography of the Mongol empire: A twentieth-century reflection on the Global Middle Ages’, Centenary Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 20-22 March 2025, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘After 100 Years: the past, present and future of Persian art’, Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, 14 March 2025, Toronto, Canada.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Ernst Gombrich and world arts: Richard Woodfield’s reflections on the historiography of non-European arts (2009-2024)’, Memorial Symposium in Honour of Richard Woodfield, Exploring the Legacy of Ernst Gombrich, Department of Art History, University of Vienna, 21 October 2024, Vienna, Austria.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Sarkis Katchadourian and Persian avant-garde across the Caspian region’, Recalling Avant-garde Moments, Reconnecting Avant-garde Scenes, Ilia State University, 9-11 October, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘In the shadow of gold: silversmithing in the Mongol empire’, The Legacy of the Mongol Empire, Written Sources and Material Culture, Chinggis Khaan National Museum of Mongolia, 22-23 August 2024, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Building the Islamic art market after 9/11: A heritage economy of the 21st century’, 7th Annual Conference of the International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA), The University of Melbourne, 11-13 July 2024.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Cultural economics of art and oil: Perso-Japanese exchanges under the second Pahlavi monarch’, The Cultural History of Late Pahlavi Iran, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 4-5 July 2024, Vienna, Austria.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Connecting water, sky and earth: material spatiality and temporality in Persian blue’, 36th Congress of the International Committee on Art History (CIHA), Lyon, 23-28 June 2024.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Revisiting The Ideals of the East: world arts through a geo-religious lens ca. 1900’, Critical Dislocations: Art, Geography, Method, NOMIS Workshop, Center for the Theory and History of Images, University of Basel, 10 May 2024, Basel, Switzerland.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Building mosques in the Eastern periphery of the Muslim world, ca. 1930s’, Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture Lecture Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 11 March 2024.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Lost, found or vanished: three cases of Persian carpet provenance in the lands of the former Habsburg empire’, Erwerbungen und Provenienzen Islamischer Kunst zwischen 1933-1945: Aktuelle Forschung und Vernetzung, Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, 13-14 October 2023, Berlin, Germany.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Institutionalising world arts in Austria-Hungary: the birth of Japanese art history’, Art History and Its Institutions in the Austro Hungarian Empire, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Department of Art History, Jagiellonian University, 28-29 September, Kraków, Poland.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘The rising sun meets the crescent: Japanese Tatar mosques and their entanglements, ca. 1930s’, 17th International Congress of Turkish Art, Warsaw, 18-21 September 2023.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Islamic art and the museum: prospects for the 21st century’, University of Tokyo, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Wednesday 13 September 2023, Tokyo, Japan.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘(Re)inventing ethnonational cultural heritage: national museums across the Persian Gulf’, Museumisation in Central Europe: Opportunities and Challenges, ELTE and the Museum of Ethnography, 7-9 June 2023, Budapest, Hungary.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘What Timur brought to the Mediterranean and Black Seas: “Mamluk” Carpets between Asia and Europe’, Productions and Exchanges: New Research on the History of Syrian-Egyptian Arts in the 15th and Early 16th Centuries, Institut des Civilisations, 22-23 May 2023, Paris, France.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Iconism in the Medieval East Islamic World: The power of figurative representation under the Seljuqs', Art and Power in Medieval Societies: Censorship, Propaganda and Public Service in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman Era, Institute for Advanced Study / Central European University, 19-20 May 2023, Budapest, Hungary.
Yuka Kadoi, ‘Ex Libris Strzygowski: How His Theory of World Arts Was Formulated’, Influence of the Vienna School of Art History III: Origins, Modifications and Influences of Its Theoretical Concepts, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, 19-20 April 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
See the research output of Persian Art in Vienna, 1900-1945 (M2428-G25)