A Story of Islamic Art
- Author
- Marcus Milwright
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Arts & Architecture
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The book also provides a detailed introduction, maps, timeline, glossary, and guides for further reading. This book offers accessible answers to key questions in the scholarship on Islamic art and architecture from its earliest times to the present. The issues dealt with in each of the stories include iconography, attitudes towards representation, the role of script, the elaboration of geometric decoration, the creation of sacred and secular spaces in architecture, and the socio-cultural context of art production and consumption.
Keywords: Arts / Art & Visual Culture / History of Art / Medieval History 400-1500 / Medieval Religion / Religious History / Social & Cultural History / ART / History / Medieval / Subjects & Themes / Islamic architecture / Islamic art / Islamic decorative arts
