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" Arts of allusion : "
Margaret S. Graves.
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BL
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1050751
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bc10351
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English
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| Main Entry
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Graves, Margaret S.
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Arts of allusion : : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam /\ Margaret S. Graves.
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New York, NY, United States of America :: Oxford University Press,, 2018.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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9780190695927
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: 0190695927
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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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Islamic decoration and ornament.
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Decoration and ornament, Medieval-- Middle East.
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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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ART-- Folk Outsider Art.
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CRAFTS HOBBIES-- Folkcrafts.
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Architecture, Medieval.
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Arts, Medieval.
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Decoration and ornament, Medieval.
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Islamic architecture.
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Islamic arts.
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Islamic decoration and ornament.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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745.40956/0902
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NK1270.G73 2018eb
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