Download or read book Image and Meaning in Islamic Art written by Robert Hillenbrand and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What is Islamic Art written by Wendy M. K. Shaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.
Download or read book How to Read Islamic Calligraphy written by Maryam D. Ekhtiar and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For centuries, Islamic calligraphy has mesmerized viewers with its beauty, sophistication, and seemingly endless variety of styles. How to Read Islamic Calligraphy offers new perspectives on this distinctive art form, using examples from The Met's superlative collections to explore the enduring preeminence of the written word as a means of creative expression throughout the Islamic world. Combining engaging, accessible texts with stunning new photography, How to Read Islamic Calligraphy introduces readers to the major Islamic script types and explains the various contexts, whether secular or sacred, in which each one came to be used. Beauty and brilliance emerge in equal measure from works of every medium, from lavishly illuminated Qur'an manuscripts, to glassware etched with poetic verses, to ceramic tiles brushed with benedictions. The sheer breadth of objects illustrated in these pages exemplifies the ubiquity of calligraphy, and provides a compelling introduction to this unique art form"--Publisher's description
Download or read book The Meaning of Islamic Art written by Khursheed Kamal Aziz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Images of Paradise in Islamic Art written by Sheila Blair and published by Hood Museum of Art Darmouth College. This book was released on 1991 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog accompanying an exhibit, The here and the hereafter: images of paradise in Islamic art, organized by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and scheduled to travel to several museums across the US until June 1992. Includes photographs--24 in color--of tapestry, calligraphy, paintings, and ceramic and metal vessels. 121/4x91/4 Distributed by U. of Texas Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Image of the Word written by Erica Cruikshank Dodd and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I is designed to be read by itself, but it presents the arguments and conclusions drawn from the Indexes in Volume II. Volume II presents the documentation for the arguments: a collection of published inscriptions decorating Islamic monuments. They are organized under three headings: 1) according to the number of the Sura and verse; 2) according to the geographical area, the city and the building where the verses occur; 3) according to the location within the buildings, over doors, for example, or on minarets.
Download or read book Early Islamic Art and Architecture written by Jonathan M. Bloom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Islamic Geometric Design written by Eric Broug and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines wide-ranging research with the author's artistic skills to reveal the techniques used to create the patterns adorning buildings in the Islamic world
Download or read book Art of Islam written by Titus Burckhardt and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam.
Download or read book Following the Stars Images of the Zodiac in Islamic Art written by Stefano Carboni and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islamic Architecture written by Robert Hillenbrand and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive survey of Islamic architecture. Working from a social, rather than a technical perspective, Hillenbrand shows how the buildings fulfilled their intended functions within the community. Lavishly illustrated.
Download or read book What Does Islamic Art Mean for Islam written by Hannah Lise Simonson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World written by Eva R. Hoffman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts. A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified as Early Christian-Byzantine Comprised of essays from experts in the field that integrate the newer, historiographical research into 'the canon' of established scholarship Exposes the historical, geographical and cultural continuities and interactions in the visual arts of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world Covers an extensive range of topics, including the effect that converging cultures in late antiquity had on art, the cultural identities that can be observed by looking at difference of tradition in visual art, and the variance of illuminations in holy books
Download or read book Al Andalus written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1992 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 711 when they arrived on the Iberian Peninsula until 1492 when scholars contribute a wide-ranging series of essays and catalogue entries which are fully companion to the 373 illustrations (324 in color) of the spectacular art and architecture of the nearly vanished culture. 91/2x121/2 they were expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella, the Muslims were a powerful force in al-Andalus, as they called the Iberian lands they controlled. This awe-inspiring volume, which accompanies a major exhibition presented at the Alhambra in Granada and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is devoted to the little-known artistic legacy of Islamic Spain, revealing the value of these arts as part of an autonomous culture and also as a presence with deep significance for both Europe and the Islamic world. Twenty-four international Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Theory of Islamic Art written by Idham Mohammed Hanash and published by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine oneness as the principle of beauty is perhaps quintessentially Islamic artistic expression and experience and what it celebrates. Why has Islamic art evolved as it has, what forms does it take, what is the logic underlying it? What message is the Muslim artist attempting to convey, what emotion is he seeking to evoke? This work views Islamic art as a subject of archeological study and treats its evolution as part of the historical study of art in the broader sense. At the same time, it paves the way for an epistemological shift from viewing Islamic art as a material concept having to do with beautiful rarities and relics that have grown out of Islamic cultural and artistic creativity, to a theoretical concept associated with a vision, a principle, a theory and a method. This theo-retical concept provides the intellectual and cultural foundation for a critical philosophical science of Islamic artistic beauty to which we might refer as ‘the science of Islamic art,’ or ‘the Islamic aesthetic’ that evaluates visual artistic creations in terms of both beauty and practical usefulness. In the process the study also explores orientalist misconceptions, challenging some of the premises with which it has approached Islamic art, with judgement rooted in a cultural framework alien to the spiritual perspective of Islam.
Download or read book The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival written by Yasser Tabbaa and published by New Age International. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Momentous developments occurred in the field of Islamic art during the 11th and 12th centuries - developments that were to affect its aesthetic direction for centuries to come, but which sprang from deep within a political and religious clash at the heart of the Muslim world. Iran, Iraq and Syria were to see the flourishing of such devises as proportional calligraphy, vegetal and geometric arabesque and muqarnas (stalactite) vaulting, but these innovations were propagated in a highly confrontational atmosphere that pitched the traditional Sunnism of the Abbasid Caliphate against the heterodox Fatimids of Egypt.
Download or read book Aisha s Cushion written by Jamal J. Elias and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Jamal J. Elias corrects this view by revealing the complexity of Islamic attitudes toward representational religious art. Aisha’s Cushion emphasizes Islam’s perceptual and intellectual modes and in so doing offers the reader both insight into Islamic visual culture and a unique way of seeing the world. Aisha’s Cushion evaluates the controversies surrounding blasphemy and iconoclasm by exploring Islamic societies at the time of Muhammad and the birth of Islam; during early contact between Arab Muslims and Byzantine Christians; in medieval Anatolia and India; and in modern times. Elias’s inquiry then goes further, to situate Islamic religious art in a global context. His comparisons with Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu attitudes toward religious art show them to be as contradictory as those of Islam. Contemporary theories about art’s place in society inform Elias’s investigation of how religious objects have been understood across time and in different cultures. Elias contends that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought not only in theological writings or aesthetic treatises but in a range of Islamic works in areas as diverse as optics, alchemy, dreaming, calligraphy, literature, vehicle and home decoration, and Sufi metaphysics. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, Elias offers fresh insight into the relations among religion, art, and perception across a broad range of cultures.
