The two–volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. This two–volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur Essays are organized according to a new chronological–geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400–year span The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art–architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub–Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas) INDICE: Volume I. From the Prophet to the Mongols .A. Introduction to the Two Volumes of A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture .1. Frameworks of Islamic Art and Architecture: Concepts, Approaches and Historiographies Finbarr B. Flood and Gülru Necipo lu .B. The Early Caliphates, Umayyads, and end of Late Antiquity (650–750) .2. The Material Culture of pre– and early Islamic Arabia Barbara Finster .3. The Formation of Religious and Caliphal Identity in the Umayyad Period: The Evidence of the Coinage Luke Treadwell .4. The Early Qur an and the Sacred Art of Late Antiquity Alain George .5. Sacred Spaces in Early Islam Mattia Guidetti .C. Abbasids and the Universal Caliphate (750–900) .6. The Origins of Islamic Urbanism: The Royal City in the Umayyad and Abbasid Periods Alastair Northedge .7. Samarra and Abbasid Ornament Marcus Milwright .8. China among Equals: The China–Abbasid Ceramics Trade Hsueh–man Shen .D. Fragmentation and the Rival Caliphates of Cordoba, Cairo, and Baghdad (900– 1050) .9. The Three Caliphates, a Comparative Approach Glaire D. Anderson and Jennifer Pruitt .10. Early Islam on the East African Coast Mark Horton .11. Textiles and Identity Jochen Sokoly .E. City States and the Later Baghdad Caliphate (1050–1250) .12. The Resurgence of the Baghdad Caliphate Yasser Tabbaa .13. Turko–Persian Empires between Anatolia and India Howard Crane and Lorenz Korn .14. Bridging Seas of Sand and Water: The Berber Dynasties of the Islamic Far West Abigail Balbale .15. Sicily and the Staging of Multiculturalism Lev Kapitaikin .16. Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean Scott Redford and Eva Hoffman .17. Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie Anna Contadini .18. The Social and Economic Life of Metalwork James Allan and Ruba Kana an .19. Ceramics and Circulation Oliver Watson .20. Figural Ornament in Medieval Islamic Art Oya Pancaro lu .21. Medieval Islamic Amulets, Talismans and Magic Venetia Porter and Emilie Savage–Smith .22. The Discovery and Rediscovery of the Medieval Islamic Object Avinoam Shalem .Volume II: From the Mongols to Modernism .A. Global Empires and the World–System (1250–1450) .23. Architecture and Court Cultures of the Fourteenth Century Bernard O Kane .24. Islamic Architecture and Ornament in China Nancy S. Steinhardt .25. Chinese and Turko–Mongol Elements in Ilkhanid and Timurid Arts Part 1 Yuka Kadoi .Part 2. Tomoko Masuya .26. Persianate Arts of the Book in Iran and Central Asia David J. Roxburgh .27. Diversification of Qur an Manuscripts from Spain to China Priscilla Soucek .28. Locating the Alhambra: A Fourteenth–Century Islamic Palace and its Western Contexts Cynthia Robinson .29. Architectural Patronage and the Rise of the Ottomans Zeynep Yurekli .30. Islam beyond Empires: Mosques and Islamic Landscapes in India and the Indian Ocean Elizabeth Lambourn .31. The Deccani Sultanates and their Interregional Connections Phillip B. Wagoner and Laura Weinstein .B. Early Modern Empires and their Neighbors (1450–1700) .32. In Search of the Timurid Roots of Mughal Architecture Lisa Golombek and Ebba Koch .33. Istanbul, Isfahan, and Delhi: Imperial Designs and Urban Experiences in the Early Modern Era Sussan Babaie and Çi dem Kafescio lu .34. Painting, from Royal to Urban Patronage Christiane Gruber and Emine Fetvac .35. Objects of Consumption: Mediterranean Interconnections of the Ottomans and Mamluks Tülay Artan .36. Safavid Arts and Diplomacy in the Age of the Renaissance and Reformation Part 1 Massumeh Farhad .Part 2 Marianna Shreve Simpson .37. Carpets, Textiles, and Trade in the Early Modern Islamic World Walter B. Denny .38. Trade, Politics, and Sufi Synthesis in the Formation of Southeast Asian Islamic Architecture Imran bin Tajudeen .39. Mudejar Americano: Iberian Aesthetic Transmission in the New World Thomas F.B. Cummins and María Judith Feliciano .C. Modernity, Empire, Colony and Nation (1700–1950) .40. Beyond the Taj Mahal: Late Mughal Visual Culture Chanchal Dadlani and Yuthika Sharma .41. Kings and Traditions in Différance: Antiquity Revisited in Post–Safavid Iran Talinn Grigor .42. Public Sphere in the Eastern Mediterranean Shirine Hamadeh .43. Jeux de miroir : Architecture in Istanbul and Cairo from Empire to Modernism Nebahat Avc o lu and Mercedes Volait .44. Islamic Art in the Islamic Lands: Museums and Architectural Revivalism Wendy Shaw .45. Islamic Art in the West: Categories of Collecting Stephen Vernoit .46. Islamic Arts and the Crisis of Representation in Modern Europe Rémi Labrusse .D. Islam, Art, and the Contemporary (1950–Present) .47. Resonance and Circulation: The Category Islamic Art and Architecture Heghnar Watenpaugh .48. Dubai, Anyplace: Histories of Architecture in the Contemporary Middle East Kishwar Rizvi .49. Translations of Architecture in West Asia during the Twentieth Century Esra Akcan .50. Calligraphic Abstraction Iftikhar Dadi .51. Articulating the Contemporary Anneka Lenssen and Sarah Rogers
- ISBN: 978-1-119-06866-2
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 1448
- Fecha Publicación: 29/08/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés