Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam

by Margaret S. Graves

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. 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, perhaps most strikingly, architecture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190695919
• ISBN13: 9780190695910
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.5"