Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World: Art, Craft and TextVenetia Porter, Mariam Rosser-Owen The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge range of artefacts and monuments from the minute to the grandiose, from ceramic pots to the great mosques. Here, Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen assemble leading experts in the field to examine both the objects themselves and the ways in which they reflect their historical, cultural and economic contexts. With a focus on metalwork, this volume includes an important new study of Mosul metalwork and presents recent discoveries in the fields of Fatimid, Mamluk and Qajar metalwork. By examining architecture, ceramics, ivories and textiles, seventeenth-century Iranian painting and contemporary art, the book explores a wide range of artistic production and historical periods from the Umayyad caliphate to the modern Middle East. This rich and detailed volume makes a significant contribution to the fields of Art History, Architecture and Islamic Studies, bringing new objects to light, and shedding new light on old objects. |
Contents
a Footnote | |
The Dieengraver of Balkh 290902302914 | |
The Ugly Duckling of Iranian Metalwork? Initial Remarks on Qajar Copper | |
a Case of Fraud in Medieval | |
A Tubular Bronze Object from Khurasan | |
the Case of the Jami Masjid of Gulbarga | |
Shifts in Taste Change in Status | |
A Bronze Pillar Lampstand from Petralia Sottana Sicily | |
Initial Observations | |
The Marble Spolia from the Badi Palace in Marrakesh | |
Glazedecorated Unglazed Wares | |
Branding Tradition in Contemporary Tinglaze Pottery from Puebla | |
The Lion the Hare and Lustreware | |
a Succession | |
An Extraordinary Mamluk Casket in the Fitzwilliam Museum | |
A Mamluk Tray and its Journey to the | |
a Mamluk Basin in | |
A Bronze Tambourine Player | |
A Group of Round Boxes from the Metal Hoard Found in Caesarea | |
PAINTING TRADITIONS AND CONTEMPORARY | |
What Defines a Fake? | |
Neocalligraphism and its Different Varieties in Modern and Contemporary | |
Meem 1958 by Siah Armajani | |
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Abbasid Ahmad Ahmad al-Mansur al-Andalus al-Dhaki al-Malik al-Mawsili al-Nasir Allan amir Arabic architecture Armenian artists Atıl Ayyubid Badi Badr al-Din Lu’lu Balkh base basin Berchem bowl brass bronze Cairo caliph calligraphy candlestick casket centre ceramics Chinese Collection colour columns contemporary copper court cultural Damascus dated decoration Egypt engraver ewer example Fatimid flywhisk Ghurid glaze hoard Husayn Indian inlaid metalwork inscription Iran Iranian Islamic Art Isma‘il ivories Julfa Kashmir Kufic lampstand London Louvre lustre Mamluk manuscript Marrakesh Mawsili Mayer medieval Meknes Melikian-Chirvani metal metalwork mosque Mosul motifs mounts Muhammad Muhammad ibn Museum of Islamic Naqqashi-khatt objects Ottoman Oxford painter painting palace palmette Paris period Persian Petralia Plate potters produced Puebla Qajar Qalawun Qāmūs Rasulid RCEA vol Rice ruler Sa‘dian Safavid Saqqa-khaneh Scerrato script silver style Sultan Syria Talavera technique textiles thirteenth century traditional tray vessels wares Wiet workshop