Author: Sir Thomas Walker Arnold
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Wendy M. K. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474659
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.

Author: Jonathan M. Bloom
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351942581
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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This volume deals with the formative period of Islamic art (to c. 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: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991116
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Kjeld von Folsach
Publisher: David Collection/ Strandberg Publishing
ISBN: 9788792949967
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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This richly illustrated book focuses on an unusually and rarely elucidated subject in the world of Islamic art: human depictions. Through seventy-five important works of Islamic art from the David Collection in Copenhagen, Denmark, The Human Figure in Islamic Art focuses on an unusually and rarely elucidated subject in the world of Islamic art: human depictions. Depictions of man were considered objectionable from an orthodox Muslim point of view since only God can create life, and man should not try to emulate God's work. There was concern that depictions or those who were depicted could be worshipped, something that went against the dogma that only God, Allah, should be the object of worship. The book describes how, despite this reluctance, portraying human figures has nonetheless always played an important role in Islamic art. The human figure is found on many kinds of utility ware, but the motif also has a long and rich tradition especially in miniature painting. The paintings in the book largely feature princes, but also holy men and quite ordinary people in the form of illustrations for works of fiction, depictions of real-life events, and true portraits. This richly illustrated book covers the use of the human figure in many of the forms of Islamic art and describes some of the historical conditions and theological discussions behind it. Light is also shed on the mutual influence of Islamic and European art.

Author: Sheila R. Canby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674023901
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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This richly illustrated book allows readers to identify the elements and themes of Islamic art forms, and to examine them in works of painting and metalwork, in calligraphy and manuscripts, ceramics, glass, wood, and ivory.

Author: Alexandre Papadopoulo
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Art, Islamic.
Languages : en
Pages : 631

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Author: Michael Barry
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 2080304216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In terms of elucidating inner meaning and symbolism, the study of medieval Islamic art has lagged almost a full century behind that of medieval Western art. This groundbreaking work suggests how it might at last prove possible to crack the allegorical code of medieval Islamic painting during its Golden Age between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Barry focuses his study around the work of Bihzâd, a painter who flourished in the late fifteenth century in the kingdom of Herat, now in Afghanistan. Bihzâd became the undisputed master of the “Persian miniature” and an almost mythical personality throughout Asian Islam. By carefully deciphering the visual symbols in medieval Islamic figurative art, Barry’s study deliberately takes a bold approach in order to decode the lost iconographic conventions of a civilization. The glorious illustrations, scholarly text, and extracts from Persian poetry, many translated into English for the first time, combine to create an essential new work of reference and a visual delight.

Author: Kjeld von Folsach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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When Lexy Baker makes it to the finale of America's most prestigious bakery contest, Bakery Battles, she thinks her biggest dream has finally come true... Until she stumbles across the dead body of judge Amanda Scott-Saunders. âe ̈What starts out as a bad day for Lexy becomes even worse when the police discover the judge was strangled with Lexy's apron. Now Lexy's sitting at the top of the suspect list with a motive, means and opportunity... but no solid alibi. âe ̈Lexy soon finds herself in a race against time to find the real killer before she ends up disqualified from the contest, or worse, in jail. But that's no easy task. There's a bakery competition full of suspects who all hated the victim and have a $100,000 motive for murder. And then there's the gorgeous, smart police detective who has mysterious ties to Lexy's boyfriend and thinks Lexy is the killer. Luckily Lexy has a secret weapon -- her iPad-toting grandmother. As long as Lexy can lure Nans away from the slot machines, she and her gang of senior citizen amateur detectives can help Lexy sift through the clues to uncover the startling truth about the real killer. With a $100,000 grand prize at stake and the search for the killer heating up -- will Lexy clear her name in time to grab the prize... or will her dream turn into a nightmare? This is book 3 in the Lexy Baker Bakery Cozy Mystery Series.

Author: Titus Burckhardt
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN: 1933316659
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Islam.