Religion & Art, Art Styles & Periods, Geographic Locations - Architecture, Islamic Studies, Architectural Time Periods & Styles
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Overview
This volume deals with the formative period of Islamic art (to ca. 950), and the different approaches to studying it. Individual essays deal with architecture, ceramics, coins, textiles, and manuscripts, as well as with such broad questions as the supposed prohibition of images, and the relationships between sacred and secular art. An introductory essay sets each work in context; it is complemented by a bibliography for further reading.Author Biography: Jonathan M. Bloom, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College, USA.
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This volume presents reprints of seminal early articles on the formative period of Islamic art and architecture, several of which are translated into English for the first time, as well as several later articles from journals that are not readily available, totaling 14 in all. The result is a useful reference to the history and historiography of Islamic art and architectural history, with representative writings by some of its founding thinkers, including Max van Berchem, Ernst Herzfeld, Ernst K<:u>hnel, Jean Sauvaget, and Oleg Grabar. The plates of the original articles are reproduced in b&w. Bloom (Boston U.) provides a critical introduction to the articles. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
May 25, 2002
Publisher
Variorum
Pages
470
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780860787051