Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world / edited by Priscilla P. Soucek.

Title & Author:

Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world / edited by Priscilla P. Soucek.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Published for the College Art Association of America by the Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.

Description:

xxii, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 29 cm.

Series:

Monographs on the fine arts ; 44

Notes:
Papers presented at a memorial colloquium in tribute to Richard Ettinghausen, held at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, Apr. 2-4, 1980.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / James R. McCredie -- Introduction / Carol Manson Bier and Priscilla P. Soucek -- The Nishapur metalwork : cultural interaction in early Islamic Iran / James W. Allan -- Observations on the iconography of the mosaics.
In the Great Mosque at Damascus / Klaus Brisch -- The draped universe of Islam / Lisa Golombek -- The iconography of Islamic architecture / Oleg Grabar -- Sad : content and context / Marilyn Jenkins. Technical note / Gary W.
Carriveau -- Two illustrated manuscripts in the Malek Library, Tehran / B.W. Robinson -- Calligraphy and common script : epitaphs from Aswan and Akhlat / J.M. Rogers -- The "iconography" of the internal decoration in the.
Mausoleum of Uljaytu at Sultaniyya / Eleanor Sims.
Imperial symbolism in Mughal painting / Robert Skelton -- The life of the prophet : illustrated versions / Priscilla P. Soucek -- Representations of the Khassikiyah and the origins of Mamluk emblems / Estelle Whelan -- The.
Scholar, the drinker, and the ceramic pot-painter / Marina D. Whitman.

Summary:

Papers from a colloquium in memory of Richard Ettinghausen Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2-4 April 1980.

ISBN:

0271006145
9780271006147

Subject:

Ettinghausen, Richard.
Islamic art Congresses.
Art islamique Congrès.
Islamic art.

Form/genre:

Festschriften.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Mélanges (Recueils)

Added entries:

Soucek, Priscilla Parsons.
Ettinghausen, Richard.
Monographs on the fine arts ; 44.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 44039
Call No.: ID:89-B3696
Status: Available

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