Research Catalog

Title

Arts of allusion : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam / Margaret S. Graves.

Author

Graves, Margaret S.

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xi, 339 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

Through close studies of ceramics, metalwares and other plastic arts from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, and, most strikingly, architecture.

Subject

• Islamic decoration and ornament
• Decoration and ornament, Medieval > Middle East
• Islamic architecture
• Architecture, Medieval > Middle East
• Islamic arts
• Arts, Medieval > Middle East
• Architecture, Medieval
• Arts, Medieval
• Decoration and ornament, Medieval
• Middle East

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-319) and index.

Contents

Arts of the third dimension -- Portable objects and art historical horizons -- Miniature, model, microcosm -- The art of allusion -- The intellect of the hand -- "Making is thinking" -- Architecture, art of process -- Thinking and making in tenth-century Iraq -- The eighth epistle -- The material imagination -- Makers, movements and mutable materials -- The craftsman in society -- Building ornament -- Taking the shapes of images -- Trails of ornament -- Building ornament -- Arcades and cordons sanitaires -- The inlaid surface -- Jaziran synthesis -- Occupied objects -- Lessons from a storeroom -- Seeing-with and the art of the object -- Occupied objects -- Inkwells, architecture, and conditioned vision -- The scribe in the inkwell -- Object as theatre -- Likeness and allusion -- Material metaphors -- The languages of objects -- The poet's craft -- Metal, stone, and smoke -- Mobile monuments -- Radiant monuments -- Metaphor and modality -- The poetics of ornament -- From Nile to Kilga -- The city reinscribed -- Mediterranean miniatures -- Ornament as ekphrasis -- Memory and imagination -- Conclusion : objects in an expanded field.

Call Number

JQF 18-1943

ISBN

• 9780190695910
• 0190695919

LCCN

2018027271

OCLC

1020564059

Author

Graves, Margaret S., author.

Title

Arts of allusion : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam / Margaret S. Graves.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-319) and index.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-1943