Islamic visual culture, 1100-1800 / Oleg Grabar.

Author/creator Grabar, Oleg
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hampshire, Eng. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, <2006->
Descriptionvolumes : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Islamic art.

SeriesVariorum collected studies series ; CS825
Collected studies CS825. ^A355371
Contents Two pieces of metalwork at the University of Michigan -- Les arts mineurs de l'Orient musulman a partir du milieu du XIIe siecle -- Trade with the east and the influence of Islamic art on the "luxury arts" in the west -- The shared culture of objects -- Epigrafika Vostoka, a critical review -- A newly discovered illustrated manuscript of the Maqamat of Hariri -- Notes on the iconography of the "Demotte" Shahname -- The illustrated Maqamat of the thirteenth century: the Bourgeoisi and the arts -- Pictures or commentaries: the illustrations of the Maqamat of al-Hariri -- About an Arabic Dioskorides manuscript -- Toward an aesthetic of Persian painting -- About two Mughal miniatures -- A preliminary note on two eighteenth-century representations of Mecca and Medina -- The inscriptions of the Madrasa-Mausoleum of Qaytbay -- Isfahan as a mirror of Persian architecture -- Reflections on Mamluk art -- An exhibition of high Ottoman art -- The meanings of Sinan's architecture -- The many gates of Ottoman art -- The crusades and the development of Islamic art -- Islamic architecure and the west: influences and parallels -- Patterns and ways of cultural exchange -- Europe and the Orient: an ideologically charged exhibition -- Classical forms in Islamic art and some implications -- Islamic art and architecture and the antique.
General note-- v. 2. Constructing the study of Islamic art
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageText in English, French and Italian.
LCCN 2005053079
ISBN0860789225 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
ISBN9780860789222 (v. 2 : alk. paper)