Main entry:

Ettinghausen, Richard, author.

Title & Author:

The art and architecture of Islam, 650-1250 / Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar.

Publication:

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, New York, USA : Penguin Books, 1987.
©1987

Description:

448 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Series:

The Pelican history of art

Notes:
Continued by: The art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800 / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1994. (Yale University Press Pelican history of art).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-428) and index.
Part I. The Caliphate. 1. The rise of Islam and the artistic climate of the period ; 2. The Umayyads and their art: 650-750. The Dome of the Rock. Early congregational mosques. The mosques of al-Walid. Secular buildings. The decorative arts ; 3. The Abbasid tradition: 750-950. Architecture and architectural decoration. The decorative arts. The art of the book. Painting -- Part II. The breakdown of the Caliphate. 4. The Muslim West: 750-1260. Architecture. The Umayyads of Spain: 750-1009, North Africa and Spain: 1009-1260. The decorative arts ; 5. The Fatimids in North Africa and Egypt: 910-1171. Architecture. North Africa, Egypt until 1060, Egypt: 1060-1171. The decorative arts ; 6. Iran and Central Asia: 800-1025. Architecture. Mosques, Mausoleums, Secular buildings. The decorative arts. Painting -- Part III. The eleventh to thirteenth centuries. 7. Architecture. Iran and Central Asia. The monuments. Mosques, Mausoleums, Towers and minarets, Secular architecture. Materials and techniques of construction. Materials, Vaults and domes, The minaret, the Pishtaq, The Court with Four Iwans. Architectural decoration. Techniques, Themes. Conclusions. India. Iraq. Northern Mesopotamia. Syria and Egypt. The monuments, Construction and decoration. Anatolia. The monuments, Construction and decoration. Conclusions ; 8. The decorative arts. General remarks, Decorative themes, Technical complexity, The Turks, The arts of the book. Iran. Textiles, Metalwork, Pottery and tiles, The arts of the book. Iraq and the Jazira. Syria. Woodwork, Metalwork, Pottery, Glass, Manuscript illustration. Anatolia.
English.

Summary:

This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen and Grabar’s original text, this book has been completely rewritten and updated to take into account recent information and methodological advances. The volume focuses special attention on the development of numerous regional centers of art in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Yemen, as well as the western and northeastern provinces of Iran. It traces the cultural and artistic evolution of such centers in the seminal early Islamic period and examines the wealth of different ways of creating a beautiful environment. The book approaches the arts with new classifications of architecture and architectural decoration, the art of the object, and the art of the book. With many new illustrations, often in color, this volume broadens the picture of Islamic artistic production and discusses objects in a wide range of media, including textiles, ceramics, metal, and wood. The book incorporates extensive accounts of the cultural contexts of the arts and defines the originality of each period. A final chapter explores the impact of Islamic art on the creativity of non-Muslims within the Islamic realm and in areas surrounding the Muslim world.

ISBN:

0140560599
9780140560596
0140561595 (pbk.)
9780140561593 (pbk.)
0300053304
9780300053302

Subject:

Islamic art.
Islamic architecture.
Art, Medieval Islamic Empire.
Architecture, Medieval Islamic Empire.
Art islamique.
Architecture islamique.
Art médiéval Empire islamique.
Architecture médiévale Empire islamique.
Architecture, Medieval
Art, Medieval
Islamitische kunst.
Islamitische bouwkunst.
Islamic Empire
Islamic visual arts, ca 420-ca 1340

Form/genre:

book jackets.
Imitation leather bindings.
paperbacks.
Typefaces.
History

Added entries:

Grabar, Oleg, author.
Blair, Sheila. Art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800.
Pelican history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 143954
Call No.: ID:87-B18548
Status: Available

Location: Library main 143953
Call No.: ID:87-B18548
Status: Available