Arts of allusion : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam /

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Author / Creator:Graves, Margaret S., author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:xi, 339 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11691683
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ISBN:9780190695910
0190695919
9780190695934
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-319) and index.
Summary:Through close studies of ceramics, metalwares and other plastic arts from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, and, most strikingly, architecture.