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JERUSALEM
CONSTRUCTING THE STUDY OF ISLAMIC ART |
| Volume: |
Volume IV |
| By: |
Oleg Grabar |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£120.00 |
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£116.40 |
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£3.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
086078925X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780860789253 |
| Availability: |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 November, 2005 |
| Series: |
Variorum Collected Studies |
| Pages: |
284 |
| Description: |
The final volume in a set of four, brings together more than 80 articles, studies, essays and other work spanning half a century. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, aiming to reflect the many incidents of a long academic life, they illustrate one scholars attempr to make sense of 1400 years of artistic growth. |
| Synopsis: |
Jerusalem is the final volume in a set of four selections of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three others being entitled: Early Islamic Art 650-1100, Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800, and Islamic Art and Beyond. Reflecting the many incidents of a long academic life, they illustrate one scholar's attempt at making order and sense of 1400 years of artistic growth. They deal with architecture, painting, objects, iconography, theories of art, aesthetics and ornament, and they seek to integrate our knowledge of Islamic art with Islamic culture and history as well as with the global concerns of the History of Art. In addition to the articles selected, each volume contains an introduction which describes, often in highly personal ways, the context in which Grabar's scholarship developed and the people who directed and mentored his efforts. The focus of this volume is what is now known as the Old City of Jerusalem.This plays a unique role in Islamic culture, as a city whose physical shape was created by a succession of Muslim rulers on a base created by the Roman empire. And then Jerusalem shelters the Dome of the Rock, the first major building sponsored by a Muslim patron and one of the masterpieces of medieval architecture. Yet it is a building whose original purpose is still obscure. The articles selected for this volume represent nearly half a century of concern, by one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, for this extraordinary city, for its buildings, and for the nexus of meanings associated with them. |
| Illustrations: |
Includes 48 b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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