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Arts of allusion : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam
Author
Title
Arts of allusion : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam / Margaret S. Graves.
ISBN
9780190695910
0190695919
9780190695934
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xi, 339 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Summary
Through close studies of ceramics, metalwares and other plastic arts from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, and, most strikingly, architecture.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 10, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-319) and index.
Contents
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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