Author: Charles Lang FreerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Second Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Author: Charles Lang FreerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Second Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Author: Freer Gallery of ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islamic art
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Second Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Author: PRESENTATION OF THE CHARLES-LANG-FREER-MEDAL.
Author: Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Author: Freer Gallery of ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
First Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Author: Freer Gallery of ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Report on the National Collection of Fine Arts Including the Freer Gallery of Art
Author: National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
After One Hundred Years
Author: Andrea LermerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004190015
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the path-breaking exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" held in Munich in 1910. It offers new ideas and unpublished material on the exhibition's historical context, organization, display, reception in the West and its later influence on the study of Islamic art.
Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts
Author: Robert HillenbrandPublisher: Pindar Press
ISBN: 1915837154
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
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.
Statement by the Secretary
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description