And diverse are their hues : color in Islamic art and culture / edited by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair.

Author/creator Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture
Other author Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.)
Other author Blair, Sheila.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxi, 389 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Color in Islamic art and culture
Added title page Mukhtalaf alwān : al-lawn fī al-fann wa-al-thaqāfah al-Islāmīyah
Portion of title Lawn fī al-fann wa-al-thaqāfah al-Islāmīyah
Contents Introduction: color in Islamic art and culture / Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair -- "Designs always polychromed or gilded": the aesthetics of color in the Alhambra / Olga Bush -- Red and yellow: colors and the quest for political legitimacy in the Islamic West / Maribel Fierro -- Color and the mystics: light, beauty, and the spiritual quest / Samir Mahmoud -- "I guess that's why they call it the blues": depiction of Majnun in Persian illuminated manuscripts / Julie Scott Meisami -- Blue behind gold: the inscription of the Dome of the Rock and its relatives / Lawrence Nees -- Tiles of many hues: the development of Iranian cuerda seca tiles and the transfer of tilework technology / Bernard O'Kane -- The science of color: color analysis and the roles of economics, geography, and tradition in the artist's choice of colors for manuscript painting / Cheryl Porter -- Red rosettes: colors of power and piety in Rasulid Yemen / Noha Sadek -- "Threads of every color": on mudéjar and cultural comparison in colonial Latin America / Michael Schreffler -- Why my name is red: an introductory inquiry / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- The hues of paradise: examining color design layout in the Persian garden / Manu P. Sobti and Mohammad Gharipour -- Color in carpets: some observations on color in carpets / Jon Thompson.
General noteThirteen papers presented at the Third Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa International Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture held in Córdoba, Spain in 2009.
General note"[Published] in association with The Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 361-377) and index.
LanguageIn English with some Arabic.
LCCN 2011027410
ISBN9780300175721 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0300175728 (cloth : alk. paper)