The Lure of the East is the remarkable journey of one of the
first women to become a curator of Islamic art at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art and an internationally recognized scholar in the
field.
NEW
YORK, May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Rodin
Books, a leading publisher in thought leadership books, announces
the release of The Lure of the East: A Curator's Fascinating
Journey by Marilyn Jenkins-Madina.
This memoir is available across all major retail platforms.
The Lure of the East is the remarkable
journey of one of the first women to become a curator of Islamic
art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and an internationally
recognized scholar in the field. This memoir is meant to inspire
others to dare to take their own road less traveled.
As a girl growing up in Frenchtown,
New Jersey, Marilyn
Jenkins-Madina recalls first learning about the Egyptian
pyramids in sixth grade. That discovery opened her mind to the
possibility of not only learning more about worlds far removed from
her small-town existence, but of actually experiencing them and
living them.
Throughout her life, opportunities to follow uncharted roads
have presented themselves in ways that she has not dismissed. It
has been the driving force in her career and her life.
She became a curator of Islamic art at The Metropolitan Museum
of Art and an internationally recognized scholar in the field. She
took more than 50 international trips, most of which were to the
Middle East, at times and in
locations where women were not exactly respected or welcomed in a
capacity of authority. She came to enjoy an enduring friendship
with Kuwaiti royalty. And, last but certainly not least, she became
the wife and partner-in-adventure of a wonderful gentleman from
Damascus who was a professor at
Columbia University and also a Kurdish
agha.
From the banks of the Delaware
to the shores of the Arabian Gulf and beyond, The Lure of the East:
A Curator's Fascinating Journey is the story of her remarkable
journey.
Dr. Jenkins-Madina began her long curatorial career at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York in 1964. Having received her B.A. from Brown University in 1962, she continued to pursue
her education while working at The Metropolitan Museum, earning
both her M.A. and Ph.D. during this time. From her initial
appointment as Curatorial Assistant, she rose through the ranks
during her forty-year tenure as curator in the Department of
Islamic Art and was named Curator Emerita upon her retirement in
2004.
This memoir is meant to inspire others to dare to take their own
road less traveled.
About the Author
Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina is
Curator Emerita of the Department of Islamic Art at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art. During the forty years she served as a
curator in that department, she not only played a key role in
helping to create the museum's first major (ten-gallery)
installation of Islamic art but she organized numerous special
exhibitions as well and sought out important gap-filling objects
for the department to add to its large and comprehensive
collection. She has also lectured widely and written or co-authored
seven books and published more than thirty articles. During her
long career, Dr. Jenkins-Madina was invited to advise and consult
on installations of Islamic art in a number of Muslim countries,
including serving as Project Director for the creation of
Kuwait's Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (Museum of Islamic
Art), which opened to great acclaim in 1983. She lives in
New York City.
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