Author: Sheila S. Blair
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292765283
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Images of Paradise in Islamic Art
Author: Sheila S. Blair
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292765283
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292765283
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Images of Paradise in Islamic Art
Author: Sheila Blair
Publisher: Hood Museum of Art Darmouth College
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A catalog accompanying an exhibit, The here and the hereafter: images of paradise in Islamic art, organized by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and scheduled to travel to several museums across the US until June 1992. Includes photographs--24 in color--of tapestry, calligraphy, paintings, and ceramic and metal vessels. 121/4x91/4 Distributed by U. of Texas Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Hood Museum of Art Darmouth College
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A catalog accompanying an exhibit, The here and the hereafter: images of paradise in Islamic art, organized by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and scheduled to travel to several museums across the US until June 1992. Includes photographs--24 in color--of tapestry, calligraphy, paintings, and ceramic and metal vessels. 121/4x91/4 Distributed by U. of Texas Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Jannat
Author: Mumtaz Currim
Publisher: Marg Publications
ISBN: 9788192110622
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This volume on Jannat in Islamic art presents images of Paradise from the Indian subcontinent spanning all forms of art, architecture, and design.
Publisher: Marg Publications
ISBN: 9788192110622
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This volume on Jannat in Islamic art presents images of Paradise from the Indian subcontinent spanning all forms of art, architecture, and design.
Rivers of Paradise
Author: Sheila Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
For millennia the collection, distribution, and symbolism of water have played pivotal roles in the lands where Islam has flourished. This book is the first to address this important subject. A diverse spectrum of scholars covers a wide range of topics: from the revelation of Islam in the 7th century to today’s conservation and development issues, from watering oases in the Moroccan desert to the flooded plains of Bengal. Copiously illustrated with beautiful color photographs and newly drawn plans and maps, this book will provoke readers to appreciate and acknowledge the essential, if often invisible and transitory, roles that water played in the arts of the Islamic lands and beyond.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
For millennia the collection, distribution, and symbolism of water have played pivotal roles in the lands where Islam has flourished. This book is the first to address this important subject. A diverse spectrum of scholars covers a wide range of topics: from the revelation of Islam in the 7th century to today’s conservation and development issues, from watering oases in the Moroccan desert to the flooded plains of Bengal. Copiously illustrated with beautiful color photographs and newly drawn plans and maps, this book will provoke readers to appreciate and acknowledge the essential, if often invisible and transitory, roles that water played in the arts of the Islamic lands and beyond.
Imagining Paradise in Islamic Art
Author: Terry Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Image and Meaning in Islamic Art
Author: Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Doris Duke's Shangri-La
Author: Donald Albrecht
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847838951
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This inspiring book accompanies the first traveling exhibition about Doris Duke’s estate Shangri La and its influential synthesis of modernist architecture and Islamic art and design. Situated on five acres of terraced gardens and pools overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Honolulu’s Diamond Head, Shangri La was the idyllic paradise of philanthropist Doris Duke, reflecting her personal passion for the art, architecture, and design of the Islamic world. The estate incorporates unique architectural features, such as carved marble doorways, jalis, and floral ceramic tiles, and the decor includes artifacts, such as silk textiles, jewel-toned chandeliers, and gilt and coffered ceilings, many collected during her travels. This volume presents an exclusive tour of Shangri La’s breathtaking interiors and landscape, including the splendid furnishings and art. Archival photographs of Duke and friends as well as correspondence and drawings provide a view into a lifestyle defined by the highest sense of aesthetics. Doris Duke’s Shangri La is sure to inspire both art and design lovers.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847838951
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This inspiring book accompanies the first traveling exhibition about Doris Duke’s estate Shangri La and its influential synthesis of modernist architecture and Islamic art and design. Situated on five acres of terraced gardens and pools overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Honolulu’s Diamond Head, Shangri La was the idyllic paradise of philanthropist Doris Duke, reflecting her personal passion for the art, architecture, and design of the Islamic world. The estate incorporates unique architectural features, such as carved marble doorways, jalis, and floral ceramic tiles, and the decor includes artifacts, such as silk textiles, jewel-toned chandeliers, and gilt and coffered ceilings, many collected during her travels. This volume presents an exclusive tour of Shangri La’s breathtaking interiors and landscape, including the splendid furnishings and art. Archival photographs of Duke and friends as well as correspondence and drawings provide a view into a lifestyle defined by the highest sense of aesthetics. Doris Duke’s Shangri La is sure to inspire both art and design lovers.
Islamic Art and Spirituality
Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887061745
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is the first book in the English language to deal with the spiritual significance of Islamic art including not only the plastic arts, but also literature and music. Rather than only dealing with the history of the various arts of Islam or their description, the author relates the form, content, symbolic language, meaning, and presence of these arts to the very sources of the Islamic revelation. Relying upon his extensive knowledge of the Islamic religion in both its exoteric and esoteric dimensions as well as the various Islamic sciences, the author relates Islamic art to the inner dimensions of the Islamic revelation and the spirituality which has issued from it. He brings out the spiritual significance of the Islamic arts ranging from architecture to music as seen, heard, and experienced by one living within the universe of the Islamic tradition. In this work the reader is made to understand the meaning of Islamic art for those living within the civilization which created it.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887061745
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is the first book in the English language to deal with the spiritual significance of Islamic art including not only the plastic arts, but also literature and music. Rather than only dealing with the history of the various arts of Islam or their description, the author relates the form, content, symbolic language, meaning, and presence of these arts to the very sources of the Islamic revelation. Relying upon his extensive knowledge of the Islamic religion in both its exoteric and esoteric dimensions as well as the various Islamic sciences, the author relates Islamic art to the inner dimensions of the Islamic revelation and the spirituality which has issued from it. He brings out the spiritual significance of the Islamic arts ranging from architecture to music as seen, heard, and experienced by one living within the universe of the Islamic tradition. In this work the reader is made to understand the meaning of Islamic art for those living within the civilization which created it.
What is “Islamic” Art?
Author: Wendy M. K. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.
Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures
Author: Joan DelPlato
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838638805
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is a critical study of French and British art and written texts (poetry, literature, travel accounts, art criticism) -- orientalist works about the harem produced in the period from 1800-1875. Original readings are provided for over 150 harem pictures, from well-known salon paintings to rarely published erotic popular prints and book illustrations. Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures examines these works closely, often establishing fresh contexts for many of the more well-known nineteenth-century harem pictures, and often providing a consideration of lesser-known harem pictures that have been rarely published until now.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838638805
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is a critical study of French and British art and written texts (poetry, literature, travel accounts, art criticism) -- orientalist works about the harem produced in the period from 1800-1875. Original readings are provided for over 150 harem pictures, from well-known salon paintings to rarely published erotic popular prints and book illustrations. Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures examines these works closely, often establishing fresh contexts for many of the more well-known nineteenth-century harem pictures, and often providing a consideration of lesser-known harem pictures that have been rarely published until now.