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Islamic Art and Beyond - Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume III (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Islamic Art and Beyond - Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume III (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Islamic Art and Beyond is the third in a set of four volumes 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 other volumes being
entitled: Early Islamic Art, 650-1100; Islamic Visual Culture,
1100-1800; and Jerusalem. 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 articles in the present volume illustrate how the
author's study of Islamic art led him in two directions for a
further understanding of the arts. One is how to define Islamic art
and what impulses provided it with its own peculiar forms and
dynamics of growth. Was it a faith or a combination of social,
historical, and cultural events? And how has 'Islamic art' impacted
on the contemporary arts of the Islamic world? The other issue is
that of the meanings to be given to forms like domes, so
characteristic of Islamic art, or to terms like symbol, signs, or
aesthetic values in the arts, especially when one considers the
contemporary world. The Islamic examples allow for the development
of new intellectual positions for the history and criticism of the
arts everywhere.
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