The Making of Islamic Art : : Studies in Honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom /

The Making of Islamic Art : : Studies in Honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom / / Robert Hillenbrand.

Explores how Islamic art and architecture were made: their materials and their social, political, economic and religious contextExplores previously neglected practice-based approaches to Islamic art: architecture, painting and the decorative artsLooks at Islamic art from the craftsman’s rather than...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022
VerfasserIn:
Hillenbrand, Robert,
MitwirkendeR:
Asher, Catherine B.,
Finster, Barbara,
Folsach, Kjeld von,
Hillenbrand, Carole,
Hillenbrand, Robert,
Komaroff, Linda,
Milwright, Marcus,
Nees, Lawrence,
Ohta, Alison,
O’Kane, Bernard,
O’Meara, Simon,
Parodi, Laura E.,
Porter, Cheryl,
Porter, Venetia,
Shreve Simpson, Marianna,
Steinhardt, Nancy,
Thackston, Wheeler M.,
Watson, Oliver,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2021
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art : ESIA
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 28 B/W illustrations 135 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • The Contributors
  • Series Editor’s Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1 Old Mosques: Destroyed, Lost and Transformed in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century India
  • CHAPTER 2 The ‘Arraf Mosque in Dhu Jibla
  • CHAPTER 3 Monumentality en Miniature: On Two Domeshaped Carpet Weights – mir-i farsh
  • CHAPTER 4 ‘The View from Above’: Muslim Perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the Period 1070 to 1176
  • CHAPTER 5 The Multiple Faces of Restoration in the Medieval Islamic Architecture of Central Asia
  • CHAPTER 6 A Damascus Room in Los Angeles
  • CHAPTER 7 Rubbish, Recycling and Repair: Perspectives on the Portable Arts of the Islamic Middle East
  • CHAPTER 8 A Copper-alloy Plate with Architectural Imagery in Berlin . . . and Jerusalem?
  • CHAPTER 9 Looking Inside the Book: Doublures of the Mamluk Period
  • CHAPTER 10 Taj al-Din ‘Alishah: The Reconstruction of his Mosque Complex at Tabriz
  • CHAPTER 11 Once More Cosmophilia: Facing the Truth, Later
  • CHAPTER 12 The Making, Unmaking and Making Sense of an Illustration from an Imperial Mughal Akbarnama
  • CHAPTER 13 The Use of Metals in Islamic Manuscripts
  • CHAPTER 14 Telling Stories: Artists’ Books in the Collection of the British Museum
  • CHAPTER 15 The Freer Beaker in Text and Image
  • CHAPTER 16 When Muslims Died in China
  • CHAPTER 17 AbË’l-Fa‰l’s Description of Akbar’s ‘House of Depiction’
  • CHAPTER 18 ‘Migration Theory’ in Islamic Pottery
  • Appendix – Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom: A Combined Bibliography
  • Index

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