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Arts of allusion : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam / Margaret S. Graves.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graves, Margaret S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic art.
- Art, Medieval.
- Art and architecture--Islamic countries--History--To 1500.
- Art and architecture.
- Islamic countries--Intellectual life.
- Islamic countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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, painting, and - most strikingly - architecture.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 10, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-069593-5
- 0-19-069594-3
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