Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world : papers from a Colloquium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2-4 April 1980

Colloquium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Carol Bier, Priscilla Parsons Soucek (Editor), Richard Ettinghausen, New York University Institute of Fine Arts

ISBN 10: 0271006145 / ISBN 13: 9780271006147

Published by Published for the College Art Association of America by the Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1990

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xxii, 261 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm. Contents: 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 Sa'd : 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world : papers from a Colloquium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2-4 April 1980
• Publisher: Published for the College Art Association of America by the Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271006145
• ISBN 13: 9780271006147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Islam

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Synopsis

This volume focuses on the question of meaning in the visual arts of the Islamic world. Twelve essays deal with a wide variety of materials—ceramics, metalwork, stone carving, textiles, manuscript illustration, calligraphy, and the forms and decorations of architecture—and the topics covered range in date from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries. Some focus on the formal transformations of themes, objects, or motifs in the context of Islamic civilization. Others explore the factors that have shaped the aesthetic perceptions of Islamic artists and patrons. In their search for the fundamental assumptions that shaped the character of Islamic art, the authors utilize a wide variety of primary sources, from historical chronicles and literary tests to monumental inscriptions and numismatics.