God is beautiful and loves beauty : the object in Islamic art and culture / edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Blair, Sheila, editor.

Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.), editor.

Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar)

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Conference Name:

Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art (4th : 2011 : Dawḥah, Qatar)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic art objects--Congresses.

Islamic art objects.

Art and society--Islamic countries--Congresses.

Art and society.

Islamic countries.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 389 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press ; Qatar : In association with the Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, [2013]

Contents:

I.M. Pei and the Challenge of the Modern

The Galleries of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Twenty Leaves from the Tashkent Koran

Three Stucco Panels from Samarra

Two Capitals from Madinat-al-Zahraʼ

The Most Authoritative Copy of ʻAbd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Guide to the Constellations

Three Ceramic Vessels from Medieval Islamic Times

The Biography of a Thirteenth-century Brass Ewer from Mosul

A Mamluk Enameled Bucket and Experiments in Glass Productions

Seven Woven Silk Tent Panels from the Mongol Period

An Early Anatolian Animal Carpet and Related Examples

An Ottoman Murakkaa and the Birth of the International Style

Five Folios from the Jahangir Album

Six Seventeenth-Century Oil Painting from Safavid Persia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

0300196660

9780300196665

OCLC:

827781414

Publisher Number:

99958524050