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A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, 2 Volume Set - Blackwell Companions to Art History / Finbarr Barry Flood, Gulru Necipoglu, Dana Arnold

Publication year: 2017

ISBN: 9781119068662 1119068665

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Bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeurEssays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span. Represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting,


Subject: Architecture, Art History General, Architecture islamique, Art islamique, Islamic architecture, Islamic art, Islamische Architektur, Islamische Kunst