Oriental Carpets: Their Iconology and Iconography from Earliest Times to the 18th Century

by Volkmar Gantzhorn

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3822805459
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 6.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 13.0" x 1.5" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Text for a Course

This is a beautiful book with careful drawings and magnificent color photographs. It is a serious scholarly work. An ideal text for a course on Oriental Carpets.

Questioning Oriental Carpet Authority

Dr. Gantzhorn's book is both a fabulous bargain, with over 600 beautiful color plates, and a ground-breaking work of art history scholarship. If you are open to an iconoclastic view of carpet weaving history, i.e., history which differs from the official one, you owe it to yourself to consider Dr. Gantzhorn's carefully researched and documented thesis.

guarded praise

a mildly goofy interpretation that claims Armenian Christian origin for oriental carpets, ill organized, with excruciating page layout, but the sources consulted and the rich illustration make an interesting read and as well an incredible bargain