The formation of Islamic art / Oleg Grabar.
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| Edition: | Rev. and enl. ed. |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c1987.
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| Format: | Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The problem
- 2. The land of early Islam
- 3. The symbolic appropriation of the land
- 4. Islamic attitudes towards the arts
- 5. Islamic religious art : the mosque
- 6. Islamic secular art : palace and city
- A. The art of the court
- B. The art of the city
- 7. Early Islamic decoration : the idea of an arabesque
- 8. The formation of Islamic art
- Postscriptum : twelve years later
- History and chronology
- Theory and interpretation
- Past and present
- App. Chronology of the early Muslim world.
