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Author: Jonathan M. Bloom
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0300243472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA group of renowned scholars, collectors, artists, and curators grapple with the challenging notion of defining "Islamic art."
Author: Wendy M. K. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-10
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1108474659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.
Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The evolution of book art and painting in the Islamic world is the product of diverse regions and periods. Islamic art flourished in the great cities and centers of learning of the ottoman Turks, the Iranian Qajars, and the later Indian Mughals, spreading across a region that extended from the Atlantic Ocean to China. In this volume, Greg Grabar, a world-renowned specialist on Islamic Art, introduces a wide range of illuminated manuscripts from the 8th to the 17th century, placing them in their temporal and spatial context as well as identifying the main centers of artistic creation. Illuminated manuscripts of the Koran, epic poetry, and scientific works are accompanied by a text explaining the subject, describing it particular visual features, and highlighting its artistic qualities. The working methods of the artists and calligraphers are reconstructed. [...] In the book's final section the author turns towards the key moments in history, society, faith, devotion, and other aspects of the Islamic world which are represented in the images." -- Book jacket.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0870991116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sheila R. Canby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780674023901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis richly illustrated book allows readers to identify the elements and themes of Islamic art forms, and to examine them in works of painting and metalwork, in calligraphy and manuscripts, ceramics, glass, wood, and ivory.
Author: Robert Irwin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Irwin delves deep into the cultures of the Islamic world to survey the exquisite arts of painting, architecture, porcelain, enamel, manuscript illumination, metalwork, calligraphy, textiles, and more. Including 217 illustrations, 148 in full color, the book covers the earliest foundations of Islam through the brilliant high point of the 17th century.
Author: Idries Trevathan
Publisher: Saqi Books
Published: 2020-02-17
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 086356190X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique investigation into the aesthetics of colour in Islamic art revealing its deeper symbolic and mystical meanings. The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour. The seventeenth-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, represents one of the finest examples of colour-use on a grand scale. Here, Trevathan examines the philosophical and mystical traditions that formed the mosque's backdrop. He shows how careful combinations of colour and design proportions in Islamic patterns expresses knowledge beyond that experienced in the corporeal world, offering another language with which to know and experience God. Colour thus becomes a spiritual language, calling for a re-consideration of how we read Islamic aesthetics.
Author: George N. Atiyeh
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995-07-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 079149540X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book in the Islamic World brings together serious studies on the book as an intellectual entity and as a vehicle of cultural development. Written by a group of distinguished scholars, it examines and reflects upon this unique tool of communication not as a physical artifact but as a manifestation of the aspirations, values, and wisdom of Arabs and Muslims in general. The Islamic system of book production differed from that of the West. This volume shows the peculiarities of book making and the intellectual principles that governed a book's inner structure, mysteries, and impact on culture. Investigated and explained are the issues involved in printing; the compilation of the Koran, the most important book in Islam; attitudes toward books; the oral versus the written tradition; metaphors of the book in literature; biographical dictionaries, an important genre of Islamic books; the grammatical tradition; women's contribution to calligraphy; scientific manuscripts; the transition from scribal to print culture; publishing in the modern Arab World; and the new electronic media, a non-book vehicle of communication, and its impact on education.
Author: Nasser D. Khalili
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9789774161940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe artistic achievements of the Islamic world chronicled over fourteen centuries.
Author: Luca Mozzati
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783791344553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Stunning book includes more than four hundred reproductions of treasures of Islamic art that span the world. With its large format, exquisite photographs and extensive research, this is a thorough introduction toan exceptional artistic tradition. --
