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Highlights of Persian art / edited by Richard Ettinghausen and Ehsan Yarshater.

Title
Highlights of Persian art / edited by Richard Ettinghausen and Ehsan Yarshater.
Publication
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1979.

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Additional Authors
  • Ettinghausen, Richard.
  • Yarshater, Ehsan, 1920-2018.
Description
xviii, 391 pages : illustrations (some color), plans; 28 cm.
Series Statement
  • Bibliotheca Persica
  • Persian art series ; no. 1
Uniform Title
Persian art series ; no. 1.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Introduction : the immanent features of Persian art / by Richard Ettinghausen -- Questions and comments on "Amlash" pottery / by Robert H. Dyson, Jr. -- Ancient bronzework from Luristan / by P.R.S. Moorey -- Pursuing Scythian art / by Ann Farkas -- Achaemenid art, monumental and minute / by Edith Porada -- Court silver of Sasanian Iran / by Prudence O. Harper -- Color and design in Persian pottery / by Charles K. Wilkinson -- Iranian architecture : the evolution of a tradition / by Priscilla Soucek -- The heroic art of the east Iranian world / by Guitty Azarpay -- Poetry and calligraphy : thoughts on their interrelation in Persian culture / by Annemarie Schimmel -- Isfahan as a mirror of Persian architecture / by Oleg Grabar -- World awareness and human relationships in Iranian painting / by Richard Ettinghausen -- Safavid textiles and rugs / by M.S. Dimand -- The tradition of wall painting in Iran / by Basil Gray-- Persian painting in the Qajar period / by B.W. Robinson -- Contemporary Persian painting / by Ehsan Yarshater -- Concordance : transcribed spelling of Persian and Arabic names and words.
ISBN
0891582959 :
LCCN
79004746
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries