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885864
885864
Arts of Allusion Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam
Author: MARGARET S. GRAVES
Year: 2018
Number of pages: 353
Format: PDF
File size: 119 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2018
Number of pages: 353
Format: PDF
File size: 119 MB
Language: ENG
The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. 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, painting, and, perhaps most strikingly, architecture. Lanterns fashioned after miniature shrines, incense burners in the form of domed monuments, earthenware jars articulated with arches and windows, inkwells that allude to tents: through close studies of objects from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, this book reveals that allusions to architecture abound across media in the portable arts of the medieval Islamic world.