Islamic Art in the 19th Century: Tradition, Innovation, And EclecticismDoris Behrens-Abouseif, Stephen Vernoit This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it. Beginning with an historical introduction and an assessment of changing attitudes towards the visual arts the following essays provide case studies of architecture and art in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. They examine such issues as patronage, sources of artistic inspiration and responses to European art. The essays have a relevance and importance for our understanding of the societies and attitudes of that time, and have a direct bearing on the more general debate concerning cultural identity and the integration of modern ideas in the Muslim world. The book is richly illustrated with very many illustrations in black-and-white and in full colour. |
Contents
The Visual Arts in NineteenthCentury Muslim Thought | 19 |
After Müstakimzade | 89 |
The Visual Transformation of Egypt during the Reign | 109 |
Appropriating Orientalism? Saber Sabris Mamluk Revivals | 131 |
The Survival of Textile Manufacture in Morocco in | 157 |
Islam and West African Art History | 191 |
Ancestral Themes in the Art of Qajar Iran 17851925 | 231 |
The Visual Language of Qajar Medals | 305 |
Iranian Pottery in the Nineteenth | 333 |
NineteenthCentury Tilework at Khiva | 363 |
Architecture and Identity in Three Indian States | 387 |
Art for TwentyFour Hours | 409 |
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Islamic Art in the 19th Century: Tradition, Innovation, and Eclecticism Doris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit No preview available - 2015 |
Islamic Art in the 19th Century: Tradition, Innovation, and Eclecticism Doris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit No preview available - 2006 |
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