Islamic visual culture, 1100-1800 / Oleg Grabar.

Main entry:

Grabar, Oleg.

Title & Author:

Islamic visual culture, 1100-1800 / Oleg Grabar.

Publication:

Description:

xxxvi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Constructing the study of Islamic art ; vol. 2
Variorum collected studies series ; CS825

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Two pieces of metalwork at the University of Michigan -- Les arts mineurs de l'Orient musulman a partir du milieu du XIIe siecle -- Trade with the east and the influence of Islamic art on the "luxury arts" in the west -- The shared culture of objects -- Epigrafika Vostoka, a critical review -- A newly discovered illustrated manuscript of the Maqamat of Hariri -- Notes on the iconography of the "Demotte" Shahname -- The illustrated Maqamat of the thirteenth century: the Bourgeoisi and the arts -- Pictures or commentaries: the illustrations of the Maqamat of al-Hariri -- About an Arabic Dioskorides manuscript -- Toward an aesthetic of Persian painting -- About two Mughal miniatures -- A preliminary note on two eighteenth-century representations of Mecca and Medina -- The inscriptions of the Madrasa-Mausoleum of Qaytbay -- Isfahan as a mirror of Persian architecture -- Reflections on Mamluk art -- An exhibition of high Ottoman art -- The meanings of Sinan's architecture -- The many gates of Ottoman art -- The crusades and the development of Islamic art -- Islamic architecure and the west: influences and parallels -- Patterns and ways of cultural exchange -- Europe and the Orient: an ideologically charged exhibition -- Classical forms in Islamic art and some implications -- Islamic art and architecture and the antique.
Text in English, French and Italian.

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Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0860789225 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780860789222 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Islamic art.
Art islamique.
Art islàmic.
Arquitectura islàmica.
Cultura islàmica.

Added entries:

Grabar, Oleg. Constructing the study of Islamic art ; vol. 2.
Collected studies ; CS825.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247164
Call No.: BIB 176722
Status: Available

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