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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islamic decoration and ornament.
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Islamic decoration and ornament. |
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Decoration and ornament, Medieval -- Middle East.
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Decoration and ornament, Medieval. |
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Middle East. |
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Islamic architecture.
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Islamic architecture. |
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Architecture, Medieval -- Middle East.
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Islamic arts.
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Arts, Medieval -- Middle East.
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Architecture, Medieval. |
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Islamic arts. |
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ART -- Folk & Outsider Art. |
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Arts, Medieval. |
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Folkcrafts. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Graves, Margaret S. Arts of allusion. New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780190695910 (DLC) 2018027271 (OCoLC)1020564059 |
| ISBN |
9780190695927 (electronic book) |
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0190695927 (electronic book) |
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9780190695941 |
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0190695943 |
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9780190695910 |
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0190695919 |
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9780190695934 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
15111406 |
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