Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1904597505
ISBN-13
9781904597506
Publisher
Pindar Press
Imprint
Pindar Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 2019
Print length
530 Pages
Weight
1,660 grams
Dimensions
18.30 x 25.40 x 4.00 cms
Product Classification:
Decorative artsIslamIslamic studies
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These studies cover Islamic decorative arts from the 7th to 17th century, exploring iconography and meanings in various media such as ceramics, metalwork, coins, carpets, calligraphy, woodwork, and ivory. Islamic art melds earlier iconography with its symbols, presenting a rich and diverse artistic heritage.
Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly termed the "decorative arts" or even "the minor arts". In point of fact, some of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory and glass. Often the images they bear express a complex set of meanings, for Islam inherited much material from the iconographic systems of earlier civilizations, notably those of the ancient Near East and of the classical world. Islam also developed its own distinctive vocabulary of signs and symbols. Accordingly, questions of iconography and meaning bulk large among the studies gathered together in the present volume. These studies, written over a period of almost thirty years, and taken from a wide variety of published sources, deal with aspects of the decorative arts from Spain to India and from the 7th to the 17th century. They focus in turn upon ceramics and metalwork; on coins, carpets and calligraphy; and on carving in wood and ivory. They are arranged under three headings. The first comprises general surveys of the field covering the content of these arts and confronting the challenges they present, such as the Islamic approach to three-dimensional sculpture. The second deals with questions of iconography and meaning, while the third comprises a series of studies devoted to specific media such as ivory, woodwork and numismatics. This volume therefore offers not only a general introduction to some of the problems posed by Islamic art, but also readings of key objects in an attempt to explore their meaning; and finally, an in-depth focus on individual objects representing specific genres and media.
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