xvi, 16 pages of color plates, followed by 495 pages of text. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear including minor creasing to the spine. Contains numerous black-and-white illustrations. Authors include Marianne Barrucand, Ernst J. Grube, Bernard O'Kane, Aptullah Kuran, A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, Eleanor Sims, Zeren Tanindi, and Salome Zajadacz-Hastenrath. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Size: Quarto (4to).

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Title: Islamic Art: A Biennial Dedicated to the Art and Culture of the Muslim World Volume IV: 1990-1991.
Publisher: Islamic Art Foundation, New York, NY
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0199215014
ISBN 13: 9780199215010
Binding: Paperback
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very good+ condition
Book Type: Book

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Volume IV lays special emphasis on the study of specific forms of Islamic Art that have hitherto been neither truly understood nor properly interpreted, focusing on aspects of iconography--objects and their forms and specific meanings--the elements of painting and the illustrations of specific texts, and the development of specific architectural features.

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Ernst J. Grube, Professor Emeritus, University of Venice, Italy; President of the Islamic Art Foundation, New York. Eleanor G. Sims, Vice-President, the Islamic Art Foundation, New York.

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