Screen LibraryStudies in Islamic painting, epigraphy and decorative arts /
Lavishly illustrated with many images previously unpublished in colour, this volume features 19 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wealth of topics in medieval Islamic art. O'Kane examines controversial subjects such as the Siyah Qalam album paintings and major masterpieces of both Arab and P...
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Edinburgh University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Edinburgh : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Collected papers in Islamic art. |
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Lavishly illustrated with many images previously unpublished in colour, this volume features 19 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wealth of topics in medieval Islamic art. O'Kane examines controversial subjects such as the Siyah Qalam album paintings and major masterpieces of both Arab and Persian illustrated manuscripts. He analyses Egyptian and Iranian examples of decorative arts including woodwork, textiles, ceramics and metalwork, from large-scale minbars to ivory boxes. And he explores epigraphic developments in Persian and Arabic, from the 10th to the 15th centuries in Egypt and Iran. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 490 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781474474764 1474474764 |
| Index Number: | N6260 |
| CLC: | J196.4 |
| Call Number: | J196.4/O411 |
| Contents: | The Egyptian Art of the Tiraz in Fatimid Times -- Monumental Calligraphy in Fatimid Egypt: Epigraphy in Stone, Stucco and Wood -- The Great Jalayirid Shāhnāma -- Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo -- A Tale of Two Minbars: Woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the Eve of the Ayyubids -- The Look of Language -- Text and Paintings in the al-Wāsiṭī Maqāmāt -- Kalila o Demna: Illustrations in Manuscripts -- Documentation of the Inscriptions in the Historic Zone of Cairo -- The Uses of Persian on Monumental Epigraphy in Turkey -- Reconcilation or Estrangement? Colophon and Paintings in the TİEM Ẓafarnāma and Some Other Controversial Manuscripts -- The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts -- The Iconography of the Shāhnāma, Ms. Ta'rikh Farisī 73, Dar al-Kutub, Cairo (796/1393-4) -- 'Introduction to Islamic Arts', 'The Ayyubids and Early Mamluks' and 'Iranian Art' -- Persian Poetry on Ilkhanid Art and Architecture -- Siyah Qalam: The Jalayirid Connections -- The Bihbihani Anthology and its Antecedents -- Lifting the Veil from the Face of Persian Painting -- Rock Faces and Rock Figures in Persian Painting. |