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Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts
Robert Hillenbrand
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Hardback. 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". Num Pages: 574 pages, 343 illus. BIC Classification: AFT; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Islamic artists channelled 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 term 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 ... Read more
Islamic artists channelled 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 term 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
574
Condition
New
Number of Pages
530
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904597506
SKU
V9781904597506
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