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 Info | New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011. |
| Description | xi, 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 note | Thirteen papers presented at the Third Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa International Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture held in CoĢrdoba, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-377) and index. |
| Language | In English with some Arabic. |
| LCCN | 2011027410 |
| ISBN | 9780300175721 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300175728 (cloth : alk. paper) |