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Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts - 9781904597506
Un libro in lingua di Robert Hillenbrand edito da David Brown Book Co, 2013
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Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly termed the "decorative arts" or even "the minor arts". In point of fact, some of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory and glass. Often the images they bear express a complex set of meanings, for Islam inherited much material from the iconographic systems of earlier civilizations, notably those of the ancient Near East and of the classical world. Islam also developed its own distinctive vocabulary of signs and symbols. Accordingly, questions of iconography and meaning bulk large among the studies gathered together in the present volume.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Robert Hillenbrand
- Editore: David Brown Book Co
- Collana: David Brown Book Co (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 31 Dicembre '13
- Genere: ART
- Pagine: 574
- ISBN-10: 1904597505
- EAN-13: 9781904597506