Inside/outside Islamic art and architecture : a cartography of boundaries in and of the field / edited by Saygin Salgirli.

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.
©2021

xi, 278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm

"When we walk into a gallery, we have a fairly good idea where the building begins and ends; and inside, while observing a painting, we are equally confident in distinguishing between the painting-proper and its frame and borders. Yet, things are often more complicated. A building defines an exterior space just as much as an interior, and what we perceive to be ornamental and marginal to a given painting may in fact be central to what it represents. In this volume, a simple question is presented: instead of dichotomous separations between inside and outside, or exterior and interior, what other relationships can we think of? The first book of its kind to grapple with this question, Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture focuses on a wide spectrum of mediums and topics, including painted manuscripts, objects, architectural decoration, architecture and urban planning, and photography. Bringing together scholars with diverse methodologies-who work on a geographical span stretching from India to Spain and Nigeria, and across a temporal spectrum from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century-this original book also poses engaging questions about the boundaries of the field"-- Provided by publisher.

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Islamic art Philosophy.
Islamic architecture Philosophy.
Composition (Art)
Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Aesthetics Religious aspects Islam.
Art islamique Philosophie.
Architecture islamique Philosophie.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Esthétique Aspect religieux Islam.
composition (artistic arrangement)

Salgırlı, Saygın, editor.

Location: Library main 316916
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