Content and Context of Visual Arts in the Islamic World

by Priscilla Soucek

This volume focuses on the question of meaning in the visual arts of the Islamic world. Twelve essays deal with a wide variety of materials ceramics, metalwork, stone carving, textiles, manuscript illustration, calligraphy, and the forms and decorations of architecture and the topics covered range in date from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries. Some focus on the formal transformations of themes, objects, or motifs in the context of Islamic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271006145
• ISBN13: 9780271006147
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 3.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"