Title & Author:

Islamic art in the 19th century : tradition, innovation, and eclecticism / edited by Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Stephen Vernoit.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Description:

x, 446 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; v. 60

Notes:
Primarily papers presented at a conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, from April 22-24, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An historical introduction to the nineteenth century : trends and influences / Benjamin C. Fortna -- The visual arts in nineteenth-century Muslim thought / Stephen Vernoit -- Nineteenth-century Ottoman funerary architecture : from innovation to eclecticism / Mehmet Baha Tanman -- Continuity and change in nineteenth-century Istanbul : Sultan Abdülaziz and the Beylerbeyi Palace / Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu -- After Müstakim-zade / Tim Stanley -- The visual transformation of Egypt during the reign of Muhammad 'Ali / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- Appropriating orientalism? : Saber Sabri's Mamluk revivals in late-nineteenth-century Cairo / Mercedes Volait -- The survival of textile manufacture in Morocco in the nineteenth century / Nadia Erzini -- Keeping the faith : Islam and West African art history in the nineteenth century / John Picton -- Ancestral themes in the art of Qajar Iran, 1785-1925 / Jennifer M. Scarce -- Innovation and revivalism in later Persian calligraphy : the Visal family of Shiraz / Maryam Ekhtiar -- An encounter between Qatar Iran and the West : the Rashtrapati Bhavan painting of Fath 'Ali Shah at the hunt / Layla S. Diba -- The visual language of Qatar medals / Priscilla Soucek -- Almost hilariously bad : Iranian pottery in the nineteenth century / Oliver Watson -- Nineteenth-century tilework at Khiva / J.M. Rogers -- Architecture and identity in three Indian states / Giles Tillotson -- Art for twenty-four hours / Peter Chelkowski.

Summary:

"This collection of essays provides a reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it. Beginning with an historical introduction and an assessment of changing attitudes towards the visual arts the following essays provide case studies of architecture and art in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. They examine such issues as patronage, sources of artistic inspiration and responses to European art."--The Publisher.

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ISBN:

9004144420 (alk. paper)
9789004144422 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Islamic art.
Art, Modern 19th century.
Art islamique.
Art 19e siècle.
Art, Modern.
Islam
Islamische Kunst
Kunst
Islamitische kunst.
Art, Islamic History Congresses.
Art, Modern 19th century Congresses.
Islamic architecture History Congresses.
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress London 2003.

Added entries:

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris.
Vernoit, Stephen.
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 60.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250602
Call No.: BIB 180099
Status: Available