Research Catalog

Title

The seas and the mobility of Islamic art / edited by Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, and Jochen Sokoly.

Author

Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture (8th : 2019 : Dawḥah, Qatar), author.

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press ; [Ar-Rayyan, Qatar] : in association with Qatar Foundation ; [Richmond, Virginia] : Virginia Commonwealth University ; [Education City, Doha, Qatar] : and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, 2021.
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Dalal, Radha
• Roberts, Sean E.
• Sokoly, Jochen A. (Jochen Artur)
• VCUQatar, host institution.

Description

335 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 30 cm

Summary

"The seas have long served as both connective tissue for and barriers between intellectual, social, and artistic traditions. Nowhere is this dual role more evident than within the visual and material cultures of the Islamic world. This remarkable new book brings together an international group of scholars and curators whose contributions address seafaring mobility's profound effect on Islamic art. Their case studies range across the globe and span a period from Islam's 1st century to today. Contributors examine the roles of importation and migration, travel, diplomacy, and gift giving in driving artistic innovation and changing the social, political, and religious institutions of an increasingly diverse Islamic world. Taken together, these chapters embody a distinctive holistic approach, pulling an exceptional diversity of voices and topics into productive dialogue"--

Subject

• Islamic art > Congresses
• Art and society > Congresses
• Islamic civilization > Congresses
• Ocean and civilization > Congresses
• Art and society
• Islamic art
• Islamic civilization
• Ocean and civilization

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "The 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium of Islamic Art held at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) in November 2019"--Page 7.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-323) and index.

Contents

1. The seas and the mobility of Islamic art : an introduction / Radha Dalal, Jochen Sokoly, and Sean Roberts -- Part one. The materials of mobility -- 2. Collapsing geography and orientalizing pigment in a fourteenth-century Italian chromosphere : Italian painting and Ilkhanid ceramics / Heather Coffey -- 3. Reuse and alteration : the Viking afterlives of Samanid silver / Holley Ledbetter -- 4. Emeralds in India : new world gems and the Mughal court / Marika Sardar -- 5. Tracing trade : the evolution of Mughal glass in the context of the MIA spittoon / Tara Desjardins -- 6. Chinese textiles in Mamluk tombs: maritime trade and cultural exchange in the fourteenth century / Eiren L. Shea -- Part two. Port cities and centers of production -- 7. A port of the sea, emporium of the land, and place of manufacture : Basra as a center of mobility and innovation in ceramics in the Abbasid period / Jessica Hallett -- 8. Portal patinas : value and violence in carved doors on the Swahili Coast / Jenny Peruski -- 9. "All men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them": carved souvenirs of mother-of-pearl from Bethlehem / Avinoam Shalem -- 10. From Surat to Jidda : picturing the Western Indian Ocean port city / Nancy Um -- Part three. Migration and diaspora -- 11. Huashi Mosque : 600 years of a Beijing muslim community / Nancy Steinhardt -- 12. Carpets on the move : modern trajectories of Persian woven treasures / Yuka Kadoi -- 13. Antallagi/Müdbadele ships : visual documents of forced migration across the Aegean Sea / Esra Akcan -- 14. Migrating heritage: transoceanic architectural dialogues across the habitus of the muslim diaspora / Noha Nasser -- 15. The sea is the limit : we need to talk about migration / Varvara Shavrova.

Call Number

JQF 22-923

ISBN

• 0300256884
• 9780300256888

LCCN

2020941529

OCLC

1198559005

Conference

Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture (8th : 2019 : Dawḥah, Qatar), author.

Title

The seas and the mobility of Islamic art / edited by Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, and Jochen Sokoly.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press ; [Ar-Rayyan, Qatar] : in association with Qatar Foundation ; [Richmond, Virginia] : Virginia Commonwealth University ; [Education City, Doha, Qatar] : and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-323) and index.

Added Author

Dalal, Radha, editor.

Roberts, Sean E., editor.

Sokoly, Jochen A. (Jochen Artur), editor.

VCUQatar, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-923