Arts of allusion : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam

1. Verfasser: Graves, Margaret S. , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Umfang/Format: xi, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Schlagworte:
Islamic decoration and ornament.
Decoration and ornament, Medieval > Middle East.
Islamic architecture.
Architecture, Medieval > Middle East.
Islamic arts.
Arts, Medieval > Middle East.
Parallelausgabe: Arts of allusion (Online version)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Arts of the third dimension
  • Portable objects and art historical horizons
  • Miniature, model, microcosm
  • The art of allusion
  • The intellect of the hand
  • "Making is thinking"
  • Architecture, art of process
  • Thinking and making in tenth-century Iraq
  • The eighth epistle
  • The material imagination
  • Makers, movements and mutable materials
  • The craftsman in society
  • Building ornament
  • Taking the shapes of images
  • Trails of ornament
  • Building ornament
  • Arcades and cordons sanitaires
  • The inlaid surface
  • Jaziran synthesis
  • Occupied objects
  • Lessons from a storeroom
  • Seeing-with and the art of the object
  • Occupied objects
  • Inkwells, architecture, and conditioned vision
  • The scribe in the inkwell
  • Object as theatre
  • Likeness and allusion
  • Material metaphors
  • The languages of objects
  • The poet's craft
  • Metal, stone, and smoke
  • Mobile monuments
  • Radiant monuments
  • Metaphor and modality
  • The poetics of ornament
  • From Nile to Kilga
  • The city reinscribed
  • Mediterranean miniatures
  • Ornament as ekphrasis
  • Memory and imagination
  • Conclusion : objects in an expanded field.

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