The art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800 / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom.

By: Blair, Sheila S.

Contributor(s): Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.).

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BookSeries: Yale University Press Pelican history of art.Publisher: New Haven. London : Yale University Press, 1994Description: xiii, 348 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.ISBN: 0300058888.Subject(s): Islamic art

| Architecture, Islamic

DDC classification: 709.17671

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Virtually all the masterpieces of Islamic art - the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal and the Tahmasp Shahnama - were produced during the period from the Mongol conquests in the early 13th century to the advent of European colonial rule in the 19th century. This work surveys the architecture and arts of the traditional Islamic lands during this era.

Continuation of: The art and architecture of Islam 650-1250 / Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1987. (The Pelican history of art).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Library Journal Review

Intended as a standard text, this volume by the area editors of Islam for The Dictionary of Art (1980. 3d ed.) is a sequel to Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar's now classic The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650-1250 (Viking, 1988). Organized simply by chronology (with sections on 1250-1500 and 1500-1800) and then by geography (Iran and Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia Minor, and India), the text focuses separately on architecture and "the arts." Each chapter concentrates on a limited number of significant objects, discussing not only stylistic and aesthetic issues but also addressing the social, historical, and economic contexts of those works. Although this book is densely written in a manner typical of survey texts and lacking the richly colored glossy reproductions of a coffee-table tome, its comprehensive coverage entitles it to become part of any library with the slightest interest in art.-Eugene C. Burt, Art Inst. of Seattle Lib. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

CHOICE Review

This is a worthy sequel to The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250 (1987) by the eminent scholars Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar in the series "The Pelican History of Art." Produced in a remarkably short time for a book of its breadth and scholarship, the work under review is up-to-date in the current research on Islamic art, and the text is informative as well as lucid. The authors investigate the vast artistic material of the Muslim world succinctly, explaining subjects such as patronage and the role of the artist and workshops and raising questions regarding the function, purpose, and meaning of the work of art in regional and imperial Islamic lands. The survey begins with the era of the Mongol invasion of the Near East and ends around 1800, with the expansion of European political and artistic influences into the Muslim world, and its consequences for the arts. The choice and quality of illustrations are quite satisfactory in most cases. The plans provided for architecture are adequate. The bibliography, including the references in the endnotes, is extremely useful to the student of Islamic art. This book, together with the first volume, is the best, if not the only text to be recommended for college-level courses, and a useful reference book for scholars. U. U. Bates; CUNY Hunter College

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jonathan M. Bloom, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College.

(Bowker Author Biography)