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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Islamic Art"”.
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Interpretation and visitors in two Islamic art exhibitions
… past fifteen years there has been an increase is Islamic art exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Islamic art exhibition includes both reinstallations of permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. Often Islamic art exhibitions are equated with broader social and political contexts …
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Persian Lessons: Islamic Art in America, circa 1876–1925
… investigates the prehistory of academic Islamic art history in the United States through the lens of American cultural history. It shows that between the US Centennial in 1876 and the inauguration of the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran in 1925, aesthetic theory and American citizenship were …
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The modernization of Islamic art in the realm of architecture
… study is to explore the modernization of Islamic art in the realm of architecture through six case studies representing traditional and modern mosques from an architectural and decorative perspective. By examining published materials and research papers pertaining to the artifacts and …
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The design of a museum of Islamic art for Paris
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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The Spiritual Turn: Modern Sufism and the Study of Islamic Art and Architecture
… a genealogy of modern Sufi discourse on art and architecture. It draws the history of a chain of writers and artists, connected through a spiritual and intellectual line of transmission, who developed a particular reading of their world- its values, its cultures and arts. Divided into …
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Islam, Modernity, and the Liminal Space Between: A Vertical Case Study of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture, Amman, Jordan
… and function of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture in Amman, Jordan. A vertical case study using grounded theory methodology, the research attempts to create a rich and holistic understanding of the Institute. Specific areas of study include the factors involved in the …
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DECOLONIAL MUSEUM MATH: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF THE DISPLAY STRATEGIES IN THE ISLAMIC ART GALLERIES AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO AND THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
… reverberated through the fields of anthropology, art history, and museum studies in the past few years. But what might a “decolonized” museum exhibit look like in practice? This paper presents two case studies, the Islamic galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Detroit Institute of …
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Shangri La : architecture as collection
… Doris Duke's interest and investment in art was not highly unusual given her social background. However, her method of acquiring these objects was more unconventional than other collectors of her time. When the term "Islamic" is tacked onto these art objects it further complicates her …
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A Fragile Balance: The Venetian Glass Industry in Cross-Cultural Artisitic Exchange with the Islamic World
… emphasis on the effects of trade with the Islamic world. Venice's material opulence was mimicked by the fragile and elegant glass vessels of the day. From the middle of the fifteenth century and for more than two hundred years the glass of Venice enthralled Europe with its élan. Venetians …
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A scenographer's perspective on Arabic theatre and Arab-Muslim identity
… identity from the viewpoint of a Kuwaiti visual artist and scenographer who is also an academic and teacher. It focuses on the history and current condition of the Arabic theatre and on the nature and qualities of Islamic art and architecture. The thesis consists of an introduction, six central …
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Out of antiquity : Umayyad baths in context
… explores the relationship between the art and architecture of the early Islamic period to those of pre-Islamic Bilad al-Sham (the region encompassing the modem-day countries of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel), and focuses on the Umayyad bathhouse as a paradigm through …
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A Teaching Toy: Free Forms in an Abstract Landscape
… student, I enjoyed a passion for the studio arts and an interest in art history. I ardently pursued these areas in college, continuing their exploration in graduate school in the field of Industrial Design. For the thesis project, my objective is to foster in children an appreciation for art …
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Echoes of Insidious Geographies: The Life History and Object Biography of a Carved Elephant Tusk from the Medieval Mediterranean to the Metropolitan Museum, circa 750 CE to Present
… ivory horn now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this study traces the millennium-long development of several insidious geographies, a term I use to describe diverse assemblages of material, visual, textual, and intellectual culture entangled with a variety of cultural, political, and …
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Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance : monumental funerary architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries
… rulers of Iranian descent, drew on the pre-Islamic past in new ways specific to each region. Mausolea constructed in the tenth and eleventh centuries have a wide geographical spread across modem Iran and the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics. However, the monuments take two different forms: …
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Punto Parola Immagine. La genesi del simbolismo visivo nell'architettura islamica (VII-X secolo) in rapporto alla cultura visiva occidentale.
… the threshold between western aesthetics and the Islamic world’s aesthetics, and has the aim of purifying the language that is commonly used to describe the Islamic world – language that produces misunderstandings and distorted interpretations and readings. One of the main problems in this …
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The Zawiya and Shrine Ensemble of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili: A Sufi Analysis
… ensemble is of significance; it is a masterful artistic physical manifestation of the Shaykh’s Sufi order and teachings. The shrine ensemble is one of the most significant architectural and decorative Sufi monuments. It had a crucial role in the establishment of the Safavid dynasty and the …
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Characterizing organic colorants in mock-ups of a 15th-century Iranian Timurid Qur'an by direct analysis in real time time-of-flight mass spectrometry
<p>The Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) has in its possession a 15th century Iranian Timurid Qur’an (accession number 30.323) as the centerpiece of the Islamic Art Collection. The Qur’an manuscript pages are folio size, highly polished, and brightly colored. The pages are composed of 10 distinct …
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L'esthétique de la traversée: Chaïbia Tallal, Maïssa Bey et Assia Djebar
… century. In so doing, I argue that these three artists of North African origin offer a de-orientalizing gaze without falling, at the same time, into the trap of reproducing binary categories by merely reversing orientalist discourse. In other words, Chaïbia, Djebar, and Bey generate a renewed …
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Woven pleasure: continuity and change in Persian carpet making during the Ṣafavīd period
… carpet design, investigate socio-cultural and artistic contexts, and establish the significance for Iranian society. Although the examination of the “carpet design revolution” argument versus historical evidence in original sources is one of the main aims of this research, the scope of this …
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