Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250

تاریخ هنر ایران #6

by Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to thirteenth centuries, a time of formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen and Grabar's original text, this book has been completely rewritten and updated to take into account recent information and methodological advances.

Genres: Art, History, Architecture, Art History, Islam, Medieval, Nonfiction

344 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 1988

Reviews

[Mohammad reza khorasanizadeh · Rating 4 out of 5]

بررسی هنر و معماری در دوران امویان و عباسیان از منظر های مختلف و در بخش های گوناگون

[Ang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Summary: This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen and Grabar's original text, this book has been completely rewritten and updated to take into account recent information and methodological advances. The volume focuses special attention on the development of numerous regional centers of art in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Yemen as well as the western and northeastern provinces of Iran. It traces the cultural and artistic evolution of such centers in the seminal early Islamic period and examines the wealth of different ways of creating a beautiful environment. The book approaches the arts with new classifications of architecture and architectural decoration, the art of the object, and the art of the book.

[Edie Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

This would be a perfect book for a graduate level course. But it is very, dry, dry. I started dreading reading it. It’s a shame to be bored by such a fascinating topic
There’s a lot on architecture, which didn’t interest me but may interest others.