Metalwork and material culture in the Islamic world : art, craft and text : essays presented to James W. Allan / edited by Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Venetia, editor.

Rosser-Owen, Mariam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic metal-work--History.

Islamic metal-work--Social aspects.

Material culture--Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge range of artefacts and monuments from the minute to the grandiose, from ceramic pots to the great mosques. Here, Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen assemble leading experts in the field to examine both the objects themselves and the ways in which they reflect their historical, cultural and economic contexts._x000D__x000D_With a focus on metalwork, this volume includes an important new study of Mosul metalwork and presents recent discoveries in the fields of Fatimid, Mamluk and

Contents:

Introduction / Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen

The principle of parsimony and the problem and the 'Mosul School of Metalwork' / Julian Raby

Metalwork and fourteenth-century Persian painting : a footnote / Teresa Fitzherbert

The die-engraver of Balkh (290/902-302/914) / Luke Treadwell

The ugly ducking of Iranian metalwork? : initial remarks on Qajar copper and copper-alloy objects in the National Museums of Scotland / Ulrike al-Khamis and Katherine Eremin

Gilding, inlay and the mobility of metallurgy : a case of fraud in medieval Kashmir / Lorenz Korn

Persians abroad : the case of the Jami' Masjid of Gulbarga / Robert Hillenbrand

An extraordinary Mamluk casket in the Fitzwilliam Museum / Rachel Ward

A Mamluk tray and its journey to the V&A / Tim Stanley

Arabic titles, well-wishes and a female saint : a Mamluk basin in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / Luitgard Mols

A bronze tambourine player / Doris Behrens-Abouseif

The Fatimid bronze hoard of Tiberias / Elias Khamis

A group of round boxes from the metal hoard found in Caesarea / Ayala Lester

Islamic Embroideries from Egypt : shifts in taste, change in status / Ruth Barnes

Metalwork in Damascus at the end of the Ottoman period : an analysis of the Qāmūs al-Sinā'āt al-Shāmiyya / Marcus Milwright

A bronze pillar lampstand from Petralia Sottana, Sicily / Jeremy Johns

The metal mounts on Andalusi ivories : initial observations / Miriam Rosser-Owen

The marble spolia from the Badi' Palace in Marrakesh / Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit

Glaze-decorated unglazed wares / Olivia Watson

Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid Reception of Chinese ceramics and the Belitung shipwreck / Jessica Hallett

Branding 'tradition' in contemporary tin-glaze pottery from Puebla / Farzaneh Pirouz-Moussavi

The lion, the hare and lustreware / Fahmida Suleman

Said el Sadr (1909-86) and Fatimid lustreware : a succession / Alan Caiger-Smith

Potter's trail : an Abu Zayd Ewer in the Saint Louis Art Museum / Oya Pancaroğlu

From the workshops of New Julfa to the court of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich : an initial look at Armenian networks and the mobility of visual culture / Amy S. Landau

Modern palimpsests : what defines a fake? / Emilie Savage-Smith

'Neo-calligraphism' and its different varieties in modern and contemporary Iranian art / Hamid Keshmirshekan

Meem 1958, by Siah Armajani / Venetia Porter.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-85772-188-7