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Arts of allusion : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam /
Through close studies of ceramics, metalwares and other plastic arts from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Arts of the third dimension
- Portable objects and art historical horizons
- Miniature, model, microcosm
- The art of allusion
- The intellect of the hand
- "Making is thinking"
- Architecture, art of process
- Thinking and making in tenth-century Iraq
- The eighth epistle
- The material imagination
- Makers, movements and mutable materials
- The craftsman in society
- Building ornament
- Taking the shapes of images
- Trails of ornament
- Building ornament
- Arcades and cordons sanitaires
- The inlaid surface
- Jaziran synthesis
- Occupied objects
- Lessons from a storeroom
- Seeing-with and the art of the object
- Occupied objects
- Inkwells, architecture, and conditioned vision
- The scribe in the inkwell
- Object as theatre
- Likeness and allusion
- Material metaphors
- The languages of objects
- The poet's craft
- Metal, stone, and smoke
- Mobile monuments
- Radiant monuments
- Metaphor and modality
- The poetics of ornament
- From Nile to Kilga
- The city reinscribed
- Mediterranean miniatures
- Ornament as ekphrasis
- Memory and imagination
- Conclusion : objects in an expanded field.