Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts

by Robert Hillenbrand

Islamic artists channelled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly term the decorative arts or even the minor arts. In point of fact, some of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory and glass. Often the images they bear express a complex set of meanings, for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904597505
• ISBN13: 9781904597506
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Pindar Press
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.