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And diverse are their hues : color in Islamic art and culture / edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom.
Language: English, Arabic Publication details: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2011.Description: xi, 389 p. : ill. (mostly col.), plates, photographs, col. maps ; 30 cmISBN:- 9780300175721 :
- 0300175728 :
- Color in Islamic art and culture
- N7432.7 .H36 2011
Contents:
Introduction: color in Islamic art and culture / Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair -- "Designs always polychromed or gilded": the aesthetics of color in the Alhambra / Olga Bush -- Red and yellow: colors and the quest for political legitimacy in the Islamic West / Maribel Fierro -- Color and the mystics: light, beauty, and the spiritual quest / Samir Mahmoud -- "I guess that's why they call it the blues": depiction of Majnun in Persian illuminated manuscripts / Julie Scott Meisami -- Blue behind gold: the inscription of the Dome of the Rock and its relatives / Lawrence Nees -- Tiles of many hues: the development of Iranian cuerda seca tiles and the transfer of tilework technology / Bernard O'Kane -- The science of color: color analysis and the roles of economics, geography, and tradition in the artist's choice of colors for manuscript painting / Cheryl Porter -- Red rosettes: colors of power and piety in Rasulid Yemen / Noha Sadek -- "Threads of every color": on mudéjar and cultural comparison in colonial Latin America / Michael Schreffler -- Why my name is red: an introductory inquiry / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- The hues of paradise: examining color design layout in the Persian garden / Manu P. Sobti and Mohammad Gharipour -- Color in carpets: some observations on color in carpets / Jon Thompson.
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Thirteen papers presented at the Third Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa International Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture held in Córdoba, Spain in 2009.
Includes bibliographical references P. 361-377) and index.
Introduction: color in Islamic art and culture / Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair -- "Designs always polychromed or gilded": the aesthetics of color in the Alhambra / Olga Bush -- Red and yellow: colors and the quest for political legitimacy in the Islamic West / Maribel Fierro -- Color and the mystics: light, beauty, and the spiritual quest / Samir Mahmoud -- "I guess that's why they call it the blues": depiction of Majnun in Persian illuminated manuscripts / Julie Scott Meisami -- Blue behind gold: the inscription of the Dome of the Rock and its relatives / Lawrence Nees -- Tiles of many hues: the development of Iranian cuerda seca tiles and the transfer of tilework technology / Bernard O'Kane -- The science of color: color analysis and the roles of economics, geography, and tradition in the artist's choice of colors for manuscript painting / Cheryl Porter -- Red rosettes: colors of power and piety in Rasulid Yemen / Noha Sadek -- "Threads of every color": on mudéjar and cultural comparison in colonial Latin America / Michael Schreffler -- Why my name is red: an introductory inquiry / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- The hues of paradise: examining color design layout in the Persian garden / Manu P. Sobti and Mohammad Gharipour -- Color in carpets: some observations on color in carpets / Jon Thompson.
In English with some Arabic.
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