Author: Barbara Schmitz
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Among the treasures of the Piermont Morgan Library there is a choice collection of Islamic and Indian material, including illustrated manuscripts, single miniatures, albums of paintings and calligraphies and bookbinding. Six sections cover Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Provincial Mughal and Indian arts, and albums.
Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Author: Barbara Schmitz
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Among the treasures of the Piermont Morgan Library there is a choice collection of Islamic and Indian material, including illustrated manuscripts, single miniatures, albums of paintings and calligraphies and bookbinding. Six sections cover Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Provincial Mughal and Indian arts, and albums.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Among the treasures of the Piermont Morgan Library there is a choice collection of Islamic and Indian material, including illustrated manuscripts, single miniatures, albums of paintings and calligraphies and bookbinding. Six sections cover Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Provincial Mughal and Indian arts, and albums.
The Emperors' Album
Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994999
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994999
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Book Arts of Isfahan
Author: Alice Taylor
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236338X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In the seventeenth century, the Persian city of Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy. Manuscript paintings produced within the city’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic groups reveal the vibrant artistic legacy of the Safavid Empire. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum, Book Arts of Isfahan offers a fascinating account of the ways in which the artists of Isfahan used their art to record the life around them and at the same time define their own identities within a complex society.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236338X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In the seventeenth century, the Persian city of Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy. Manuscript paintings produced within the city’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic groups reveal the vibrant artistic legacy of the Safavid Empire. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum, Book Arts of Isfahan offers a fascinating account of the ways in which the artists of Isfahan used their art to record the life around them and at the same time define their own identities within a complex society.
The Persian Album, 1400-1600
Author: David J. Roxburgh
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103250
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to preserve and display art, yet they were conceptualized in different ways. David Roxburgh, a leading expert on Persian albums and the art of the book, discusses this diversity and demonstrates convincingly that to look at the practice of album making is to open a vista to a culture of thought about the Persian art tradition. The book considers the album’s formal and physical properties, assembly, and content, as well as the viewer’s experience. Focusing on seven albums created during the Timurid and Safavid dynasties, Roxburgh reconstructs the history and development of this codex form and uses the works of art to explore notions of how art and aesthetics were conceived in Persian court culture. Generously illustrated with over 175 images, many rare and previously unpublished, the book offers a range of new insights into Persian visual culture as well as Islamic art history.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103250
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to preserve and display art, yet they were conceptualized in different ways. David Roxburgh, a leading expert on Persian albums and the art of the book, discusses this diversity and demonstrates convincingly that to look at the practice of album making is to open a vista to a culture of thought about the Persian art tradition. The book considers the album’s formal and physical properties, assembly, and content, as well as the viewer’s experience. Focusing on seven albums created during the Timurid and Safavid dynasties, Roxburgh reconstructs the history and development of this codex form and uses the works of art to explore notions of how art and aesthetics were conceived in Persian court culture. Generously illustrated with over 175 images, many rare and previously unpublished, the book offers a range of new insights into Persian visual culture as well as Islamic art history.
A King's Book of Kings
Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870990284
Category : Art, Iranian
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870990284
Category : Art, Iranian
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters
Author: Wheeler McIntosh Thackston
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004119611
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Persian text and English translation of the major texts of album prefaces, miscellaneous documents, and travel literature from the Timurid and Safavid periods.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004119611
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Persian text and English translation of the major texts of album prefaces, miscellaneous documents, and travel literature from the Timurid and Safavid periods.
Wildlife in a Changing World
Author: Jean-Christophe Vié
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831710634
Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Wildlife in a Changing World" presents an analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Beginning with an explanation of the IUCN Red List as a key conservation tool, it goes on to discuss the state of the world s species and provides the latest information on the patterns of species facing extinction in some of the most important ecosystems in the world, highlighting the reasons behind their declining status. Areas of focus in the report include: freshwater biodiversity, the status of the world s marine species, species susceptibility to climate change impacts, the Mediterranean biodiversity hot spot, and broadening the coverage of biodiversity assessments."
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831710634
Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Wildlife in a Changing World" presents an analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Beginning with an explanation of the IUCN Red List as a key conservation tool, it goes on to discuss the state of the world s species and provides the latest information on the patterns of species facing extinction in some of the most important ecosystems in the world, highlighting the reasons behind their declining status. Areas of focus in the report include: freshwater biodiversity, the status of the world s marine species, species susceptibility to climate change impacts, the Mediterranean biodiversity hot spot, and broadening the coverage of biodiversity assessments."
Writing a Chrysanthemum
Author: Rachel Federman
Publisher: Delmonico Books
ISBN: 9781636810386
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
""Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco legend," wrote author and artist Etel Adnan in a 1998 essay. Barton (American, 1928-1992) was born and raised in New York and settled in the Bay Area in the 1950s. Working primarily in pen or brush and ink, in a kaleidoscopic linear style, Barton ceaselessly recorded the world around him. His intricate sheets capture the intimate interiors and social spaces, lovers and friends, and architectural and botanical subjects that fascinated him. Bringing together more than sixty drawings, two accordion-folded sketchbooks, and printed books and portfolios, this catalogue presents the work of a significant and, until now, unheralded figure of the Beat era. Complementing the images are a deeply researched essay by Rachel Federman, curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, and an excerpt of Adnan's essay, the first and previously the only published account of Barton"--
Publisher: Delmonico Books
ISBN: 9781636810386
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
""Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco legend," wrote author and artist Etel Adnan in a 1998 essay. Barton (American, 1928-1992) was born and raised in New York and settled in the Bay Area in the 1950s. Working primarily in pen or brush and ink, in a kaleidoscopic linear style, Barton ceaselessly recorded the world around him. His intricate sheets capture the intimate interiors and social spaces, lovers and friends, and architectural and botanical subjects that fascinated him. Bringing together more than sixty drawings, two accordion-folded sketchbooks, and printed books and portfolios, this catalogue presents the work of a significant and, until now, unheralded figure of the Beat era. Complementing the images are a deeply researched essay by Rachel Federman, curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, and an excerpt of Adnan's essay, the first and previously the only published account of Barton"--
The Look of the Book
Author: Elaine Julia Wright
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295991917
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, submitted to the Oriental Institute of Oxford University in 1997.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295991917
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, submitted to the Oriental Institute of Oxford University in 1997.
The Arabic Manuscript Tradition
Author: Adam Gacek
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400844
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Covering the entire spectrum of Arabic manuscripts, and especially the handwritten book, this book consists of a glossary of technical terms and a bibliography. The technical terms, collected from a variety of sources, embrace a vast range of topics dealing with the making and reading (studying) of Arabic manuscripts. They include: the Arabic scripts, penmanship, writing materials and implements, the make-up of the codex, copying and correction, decoration and bookbinding. A similar coverage is reflected in the bibliography. In view of the fact that, as yet, there is no concise monograph on Arabic manuscripts in the English language, this book is an important contribution to this field. And, since Arabic manuscripts represent an enormous resource for research, this work is an indispensable reference for all students of Islamic civilization.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400844
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Covering the entire spectrum of Arabic manuscripts, and especially the handwritten book, this book consists of a glossary of technical terms and a bibliography. The technical terms, collected from a variety of sources, embrace a vast range of topics dealing with the making and reading (studying) of Arabic manuscripts. They include: the Arabic scripts, penmanship, writing materials and implements, the make-up of the codex, copying and correction, decoration and bookbinding. A similar coverage is reflected in the bibliography. In view of the fact that, as yet, there is no concise monograph on Arabic manuscripts in the English language, this book is an important contribution to this field. And, since Arabic manuscripts represent an enormous resource for research, this work is an indispensable reference for all students of Islamic civilization.