| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 530 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen -- The principle of parsimony and the problem and the 'Mosul School of Metalwork' / Julian Raby -- Metalwork and fourteenth-century Persian painting : a footnote / Teresa Fitzherbert -- The die-engraver of Balkh (290/902-302/914) / Luke Treadwell -- The ugly ducking of Iranian metalwork? : initial remarks on Qajar copper and copper-alloy objects in the National Museums of Scotland / Ulrike al-Khamis and Katherine Eremin -- Gilding, inlay and the mobility of metallurgy : a case of fraud in medieval Kashmir / Finbarr Barry Flood -- A tubular bronze object from Khurasan / Lorenz Korn -- Persians abroad : the case of the Jamiʻ Masjid of Gulbarga / Robert Hillenbrand -- An extraordinary Mamluk casket in the Fitzwilliam Museum / Rachel Ward -- A Mamluk tray and its journey to the V & A / Tim Stanley -- Arabic titles, well-wishes and a female saint : a Mamluk basin in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / Luitgard Mols -- A bronze tambourine player / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- The Fatimid bronze hoard of Tiberias / Elias Khamis -- A group of round boxes from the metal hoard found in Caesarea / Ayala Lester -- Islamic embroideries from Egypt : shifts in taste, change in status / Ruth Barnes -- Metalwork in Damascus at the end of the Ottoman period : an analysis of the Qāmūs al-Ṣināʻāt al-Shāmiyya / Marcus Milwright -- A bronze pillar lampstand from Petralia Sottana, Sicily / Jeremy Johns -- The metal mounts on Andalusi ivories : initial observations / Mariam Rosser-Owen -- The marble spolia from the Badiʻ Palace in Marrakesh / Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit -- Glaze-decorated unglazed wares / Olivia Watson -- Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid reception of Chinese ceramics and the Belitung shipwreck / Jessica Hallett -- Branding 'tradition' in contemporary tin-glaze pottery from Puebla / Farzaneh Pirouz-Moussavi -- The lion, the hare and lustreware / Fahmida Suleman -- Said el Sadr (1909-86) and Fatimid lustreware : a succession / Alan Caiger-Smith -- Potter's trail : an Abu Zayd Ewer in the Saint Louis Art Museum / Oya Pancaroğlu -- From the workshops of New Julfa to the court of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich : an initial look at Armenian networks and the mobility of visual culture / Amy S. Landau -- Modern palimpsests : what defines a fake? / Emilie Savage-Smith -- 'Neo-calligraphism' and its different varieties in modern and contemporary Iranian art / Hamid Keshmirshekan -- Meem 1958, by Siah Armajani / Venetia Porter |
| Summary |
The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge range of artefacts and monuments from the minute to the grandiose, from ceramic pots to the great mosques. Here, Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen assemble leading experts in the field to examine both the objects themselves and the ways in which they reflect their historical, cultural and economic contexts. With a focus on metalwork, this volume includes an important new study of Mosul metalwork and presents recent discoveries in the fields of Fatimid, Mamluk and Qajar metalwork. By examining architecture, ceramics, ivories and textiles, seventeenth-century Iranian painting and contemporary art, the book explores a wide range of artistic production and historical periods from the Umayyad caliphate to the modern Middle East. This rich and detailed volume makes a significant contribution to the fields of Art History, Architecture and Islamic Studies, bringing new objects to light, and shedding new light on old objects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Allan, James W.
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Islamic metal-work -- History
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Islamic metal-work -- Social aspects
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Material culture -- Islamic countries
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Art styles not defined by date.
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ART -- General.
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Metal Work.
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Islamic metal-work
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Material culture
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Islamic countries
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Porter, Venetia.
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Rosser-Owen, Mariam.
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| LC no. |
2011277863 |
| ISBN |
9780857721884 |
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0857721887 |
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1299639909 |
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9781299639904 |
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9780857733436 |
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0857733435 |
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