Eleventh Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal, April 5, 2001
Title | Eleventh Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal, April 5, 2001 PDF eBook |
Author | Oleg Grabar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2001 |
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Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal, September 11, 1973
Title | Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal, September 11, 1973 PDF eBook |
Author | Freer Gallery of Art |
Publisher | |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Art, Asian |
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Early Islamic Art and Architecture
Title | Early Islamic Art and Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan M. Bloom |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 634 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1351942581 |
This volume deals with the formative period of Islamic art (to c. 950), and the different approaches to studying it. Individual essays deal with architecture, ceramics, coins, textiles, and manuscripts, as well as with such broad questions as the supposed prohibition of images, and the relationships between sacred and secular art. An introductory essay sets each work in context; it is complemented by a bibliography for further reading.
Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts
Title | Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hillenbrand |
Publisher | Pindar Press |
Pages | 531 |
Release | 2019-12-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1915837154 |
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 distinctive vocabulary of signs and symbols. Accordingly, questions of iconography and meaning bulk large among the studies gathered together in the present volume. These studies, written over a period of almost thirty years, and taken from a wide variety of published sources, deal with aspects of the decorative arts from Spain to India and from the 7th to the 17th century. They focus in turn upon ceramics and metalwork; on coins, carpets and calligraphy; and on carving in wood and ivory. They are arranged under three headings. The first comprises general surveys of the field covering the content of these arts and confronting the challenges they present, such as the Islamic approach to three-dimensional sculpture. The second deals with questions of iconography and meaning, while the third comprises a series of studies devoted to specific media such as ivory, woodwork and numismatics. This volume therefore offers not only a general introduction to some of the problems posed by Islamic art, but also readings of key objects in an attempt to explore their meaning; and finally, an in-depth focus on individual objects representing specific genres and media.
First Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Title | First Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal PDF eBook |
Author | Freer Gallery of Art |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1956 |
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First Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Title | First Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal PDF eBook |
Author | Freer Gallery of Art |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Art, Asian |
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Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Title | Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal PDF eBook |
Author | Freer Gallery of Art (Smithsonian Institution, SI, Washington D.C.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 1973 |
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