Title Statements
- Full title :Islamic art and beyond / Oleg Grabar.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate, Variorum
- Place of Publication:Aldershot, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
Notes
Errata slip inserted with corrected Variorum collected studies series number.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxv, 362 pages : : illustrations, plans ; : 26 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0860789268, 9780860789260
- oclc:ocm65469037
- LC Classification:N6260
- Dewey Decimal:709.1767
Table of Contents
Theory of art. History of art and history of literature : some random thoughts ; An art of the object ; On the universality of the history of art ; From utopia to paradigms ; Geometry and ideology : the festival of Islam and the study of Islamic art ; Different but compatible ends ; Die Ethische Dimension des Ornaments ; Islamic ornament and Western abstraction -- General Islamic architecture. The Islamic dome, some considerations ; The architecture of the Middle Eastern city : the case of the mosque ; Art and architecture ; Cities and citizens : the growth and culture if urban Islam ; Symbols and signs of Islamic architecture ; The meaning of history in Cairo ; Architecture as art ; From dome of heaven to pleasure dome ; Graffiti or proclamations : why write on buildings? -- General Islamic art. What makes Islamic art Islamic? ; Islamic art and archaeology ; Reflections on the study of Islamic art ; On catalogs, exhibitions and complete works ; Between connoisseurship and technology : a review ; The aesthetics of Islamic art.
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