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What Is 'Islamic' Art? : Between Religion and Perception by Wendy M. K. Shaw (2019, Hardcover)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108474659

ISBN-139781108474658

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038505303

Product Key Features

Number of Pages382 Pages

Publication NameWhat Is 'islamic' Art? : between Religion and Perception

LanguageEnglish

SubjectMiddle Eastern, Middle East / General

Publication Year2019

TypeTextbook

AuthorWendy M. K. Shaw

Subject AreaArt, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight32.6 Oz

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width6.9 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2019-014540

Reviews'This book is exactly what art history needs when it attempts to think about Islamic art. Instead of asking what properties make an image Islamic, this book asks, what is an image in Islam? When art history begins to understand its secularism, concepts like art, image, vision, matter, and history necessarily change. Shaw gives us a different perceptual culture, one that begins from Islamic discourses, and gradually becomes visible as art and history. It is the first book of its kind, and I hope there will be many more.' James Elkins, School of the Art Institute, Chicago

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal709.1767

Table Of ContentList of figures; Preface; Note on transcultural communication; Introduction: from Islamic art to perceptual culture; 1. The Islamic image; 2. Seeing with the ear; 3. The insufficient image; 4. Seeing with the heart; 5. Seeing through the mirror; 6. Deceiving deception; 7. The transcendent image; 8. The transgressive image; 9. Mimetic geometries; 10. Perspectives on perspective; Conclusion: out of perspective; References; Index.

SynopsisInvestigating what is Islamic about Islamic art through analysis of the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufi texts, ancient philosophy, and a rich corpus of transcultural poetry, Shaw challenges the historicism, secularism, and regionalism of traditional art history with new means of perceiving Islamic painting, music, and geometric pattern., Revealing what is 'Islamic' in Islamic art, Shaw explores the perception of arts, including painting, music, and geometry through the discursive sphere of historical Islam including the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufism, ancient philosophy, and poetry. Emphasis on the experience of reception over the context of production enables a new approach, not only to Islam and its arts, but also as a decolonizing model for global approaches to art history. Shaw combines a concise introduction to Islamic intellectual history with a critique of the modern, secular, and European premises of disciplinary art history. Her meticulous interpretations of intertextual themes span antique philosophies, core religious and theological texts, and prominent prose and poetry in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu that circulated across regions of Islamic hegemony from the eleventh century to the colonial and post-colonial contexts of the modern Middle East.

LC Classification NumberN6260.S56 2019