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Author: Jennifer Mary Wearden Publisher: ISBN: 9781907372872 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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This exceptional collection of Islamic textiles published here ranges widely in region, material and technique. There are exquisite textiles and garments from North Africa, Syria, Arabia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent, mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which continue the traditions established in the medieval Islamic world.
Author: Jennifer Mary Wearden Publisher: ISBN: 9781907372872 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This exceptional collection of Islamic textiles published here ranges widely in region, material and technique. There are exquisite textiles and garments from North Africa, Syria, Arabia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent, mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which continue the traditions established in the medieval Islamic world.
Author: Norman Stillman Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004491627 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 348
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This richly illustrated volume is a historical and ethnographic study of one important aspect of Arab and Islamic material culture - clothing. While in part descriptive, its principal focus is on the evolution and transformations of modes of dress over the past 1400 years throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and for the Middle Ages, Islamic Spain. Arab clothing is treated as part of an Islamic vestimentary system and is discussed within the context of the social, religious, esthetic, and political trends of each age. In addition to the five historical chapters, three chapters are devoted to major themes of Arab costume history - the dress code for non-Muslims, the important socio-economic and political institution of luxury fabrics and garments of honor, and the most well-known and frequently misunderstood institution of veiling.
Author: Faegheh Shirazi Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350291250 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 209
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Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play within Muslim-majority communities. This thematically arranged book sheds light on the traditions, rituals and religious practices of these regions, and the ways in which each one incorporates materials and clothing. Drawing on examples including Iranian lion carpets and Arabic keffiyeh, Faegheh Shirazi frames these textiles and totemic items as important cultural signifiers that, together, form a dynamic and fascinating material culture. Like a developing language, this culture expands, bends and develops to suit the needs of new generations and groups across the world. The political significance of Islamicate textiles is also explored: Faegheh Shirazi's writing reveals the fraught relationship between the East – with its sought-after materials and much-valued textiles – and the European countries that purchased and repurposed these goods, and lays bare the historical and contemporary connections between textiles, colonialism, immigration and economics. Dr Shirazi also discusses gender and how textiles and clothing are intimately linked with sexuality and gender identity.
Author: Margarita Campos Kent Publisher: ISBN: Category : Islamic art Languages : en Pages : 296
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Abstract: The purpose of this thesis has been to examine Hispano-Islamic textiles which contain a figurative iconography. After having compared the iconography of twelve works with the secular and sacred traditions of both Christian and Islamic cultures, the following conclusions were reached. Both cultures shared common roots in classical and oriental culture and a rich spiritual life was shaped by Hispano-Islamic and Hispano-Christian peoples during the Middle Ages. Furthermore, it was concluded that the textiles, found in Christian tombs or sacred places, represent a "meta-language" by which Islamic and Christian peoples could communicate their compatible religious inclinations. Indeed, the persistence of a cosmological program of representation insinuates the existence of a substratum of values and institutions beneath dynastic and institutional distinctions. As a consequence, the evidence in these twelve textiles of a cultural substratum common to both cultures points to a compatibility of experience that was immune to the parochial distinctions of which both Christian and Islamic peoples proved susceptible in other environments. Finally, from this examination, it was inferred that the panHispanic cultural milieu was sufficiently resourceful to assimilate discordant interventions without relinquishing its fundamental autonomy or its cosmopolitanism.
Author: Robert Hillenbrand Publisher: Pindar Press ISBN: 1915837154 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 531
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Islamic artists channelled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly term the decorative arts or even the minor arts. In point of fact, some of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory and glass. Often the images they bear express a complex set of meanings, for Islam inherited much material from the iconographic systems of earlier civilizations, notably those of the ancient Near East and of the classical world. Islam also developed its own distinctive vocabulary of signs and symbols. Accordingly, questions of iconography and meaning bulk large among the studies gathered together in the present volume. These studies, written over a period of almost thirty years, and taken from a wide variety of published sources, deal with aspects of the decorative arts from Spain to India and from the 7th to the 17th century. They focus in turn upon ceramics and metalwork; on coins, carpets and calligraphy; and on carving in wood and ivory. They are arranged under three headings. The first comprises general surveys of the field covering the content of these arts and confronting the challenges they present, such as the Islamic approach to three-dimensional sculpture. The second deals with questions of iconography and meaning, while the third comprises a series of studies devoted to specific media such as ivory, woodwork and numismatics. This volume therefore offers not only a general introduction to some of the problems posed by Islamic art, but also readings of key objects in an attempt to explore their meaning; and finally, an in-depth focus on individual objects representing specific genres and media.
Author: Peter Osier Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica ISBN: 1680486144 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 152
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"The Islamic world has a rich artistic tradition, with particular strengths in calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, architecture, and the decorative arts. This reference traces the development of Islamic art and architecture from the Umayyad dynasty to the present day. Readers will learn about the art of the Fatimids, Seljuqs, Mamluks, Mongols, Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, and more. Eye-catching photographs of gorgeous mosques, delicate manuscript paintings, and colorful ceramics give readers glimpses of the works being discussed. A great resource both for those interested in art history and those hoping to learn more about the long, rich history of Islamic culture."
Author: Jennifer Mary Wearden
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