Book Description
Discusses the art, architecture, literature, and culture of Islamic nations, including the development of Arabic calligraphy, literary elements in Islamic literature, and historic traditions of Islamic visual arts.
Author : Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2009-12-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615300198
Discusses the art, architecture, literature, and culture of Islamic nations, including the development of Arabic calligraphy, literary elements in Islamic literature, and historic traditions of Islamic visual arts.
Author : Oleg Grabar
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN :
The six essays of this volume, edited by Grabar (Harvard U. and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton) and Robinson (U. of New Mexico) explore a hitherto neglected aspect of Islamic art: the interaction between text and image. Among the topics are the love story Bayad wa Riyad from 13C Spain (by Robinson), Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, 17C Persian narrative of sounds, and the visual imagination in classical Arabic biography. Each essay is followed by lengthy endnotes, but the volume is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 1987-02-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780887061752
This is the first book in the English language to deal with the spiritual significance of Islamic art including not only the plastic arts, but also literature and music. Rather than only dealing with the history of the various arts of Islam or their description, the author relates the form, content, symbolic language, meaning, and presence of these arts to the very sources of the Islamic revelation. Relying upon his extensive knowledge of the Islamic religion in both its exoteric and esoteric dimensions as well as the various Islamic sciences, the author relates Islamic art to the inner dimensions of the Islamic revelation and the spirituality which has issued from it. He brings out the spiritual significance of the Islamic arts ranging from architecture to music as seen, heard, and experienced by one living within the universe of the Islamic tradition. In this work the reader is made to understand the meaning of Islamic art for those living within the civilization which created it.
Author : Idries Trevathan
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 086356190X
A unique investigation into the aesthetics of colour in Islamic art revealing its deeper symbolic and mystical meanings. The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour. The seventeenth-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, represents one of the finest examples of colour-use on a grand scale. Here, Trevathan examines the philosophical and mystical traditions that formed the mosque's backdrop. He shows how careful combinations of colour and design proportions in Islamic patterns expresses knowledge beyond that experienced in the corporeal world, offering another language with which to know and experience God. Colour thus becomes a spiritual language, calling for a re-consideration of how we read Islamic aesthetics.
Author : Jonathan M. Bloom
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300243472
A group of renowned scholars, collectors, artists, and curators grapple with the challenging notion of defining "Islamic art."
Author : Onur Öztürk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2022-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 100055595X
Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the creation of new myths and the encouragement of nationalistic and ethnic attitudes. Despite its Orientalist origins, the field of Islamic art has continued to evolve and shape our understanding of the various civilizations of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Situated in this field, this book addresses how universities, museums, and other educational institutions can continue to challenge stereotypical or homogeneous notions of Islam and Islamic art. It reviews subtle and overt mythologies through scholarly research, museum collections and exhibitions, classroom perspectives, and artists’ initiatives. This collaborative volume addresses a conspicuous and persistent gap in the literature, which can only be filled by recognizing and resolving persistent myths regarding Islamic art from diverse academic and professional perspectives. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, visual culture, and Middle Eastern studies.
Author : Oleg Grabar
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780860789260
The articles selected for Islamic Art and Beyond, the third in the set of four selections of articles by Oleg Grabar, illustrate how the author's study of Islamic art led him in two directions for a further understanding of the arts. One is how to define Islamic art and what impulses provided it with its own peculiar forms and dynamics of growth. The other issue is that of the meanings to be given to forms like domes, so characteristic of Islamic art, or to terms like symbol, signs, or aesthetic values in the arts, especially when one considers the contemporary world.
Author : Wendy M. K. Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108474659
An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.
Author : Francesca Leoni
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409464389
Dedicated to the topic of eroticism and sexuality in the visual production of the medieval and early modern Muslim world, this volume offers new insights and methodological models that extend our understanding of erotic and sexual subjects in the Islamic tradition. The essays shed light on the diverse socio-cultural milieus of erotic images, on the motivations underlying their production, and on the responses generated by their circulation.
Author : Richard Ettinghausen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 2003-07-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300088694
This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen and Grabar’s original text, this book has been completely rewritten and updated to take into account recent information and methodological advances. The volume focuses special attention on the development of numerous regional centers of art in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Yemen, as well as the western and northeastern provinces of Iran. It traces the cultural and artistic evolution of such centers in the seminal early Islamic period and examines the wealth of different ways of creating a beautiful environment. The book approaches the arts with new classifications of architecture and architectural decoration, the art of the object, and the art of the book. With many new illustrations, often in color, this volume broadens the picture of Islamic artistic production and discusses objects in a wide range of media, including textiles, ceramics, metal, and wood. The book incorporates extensive accounts of the cultural contexts of the arts and defines the originality of each period. A final chapter explores the impact of Islamic art on the creativity of non-Muslims within the Islamic realm and in areas surrounding the Muslim world.