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Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world : papers from a Colloquium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2-4 April 1980
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Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world : papers from a Colloquium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2-4 April 1980

Author: Carol Bier; Priscilla Parsons Soucek; Richard Ettinghausen; New York University. Institute of Fine Arts.
Publisher: University Park : Published for the College Art Association of America by the Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.
Series: Monographs on the fine arts, 44
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : English
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Named Person: Richard Ettinghausen; Richard Ettinghausen
Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Carol Bier; Priscilla Parsons Soucek; Richard Ettinghausen; New York University. Institute of Fine Arts.
ISBN: 0271006145 : 9780271006147
OCLC Number: 16277410
Description: xxii, 261 p., [15] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Contents: Foreword / James R. McCredie -- Introduction / Carol Manson Bier and Priscilla P. Soucek -- The Nishapur metalwork : cultural interaction in early Islamic Iran / James W. Allan -- Observations on the iconography of the mosaics in the Great Mosque at Damascus / Klaus Brisch -- The draped universe of Islam / Lisa Golombek -- The iconography of Islamic architecture / Oleg Grabar -- Saʻd : content and context / Marilyn Jenkins. Technical note / Gary W. Carriveau -- Two illustrated manuscripts in the Malek Library, Tehran / B.W. Robinson -- Calligraphy and common script : epitaphs from Aswan and Akhlat / J.M. Rogers -- The "iconography" of the internal decoration in the mausoleum of Ūljāytū at Sultaniyya / Eleanor Sims. Imperial symbolism in Mughal painting / Robert Skelton -- The life of the prophet : illustrated versions / Priscilla P. Soucek -- Representations of the Khāssikīyah and the origins of Mamluk emblems / Estelle Whelan -- The scholar, the drinker, and the ceramic pot-painter / Marina D. Whitman.
Series Title: Monographs on the fine arts, 44
Responsibility: planned and organized by Carol Manson Bier ; edited by Priscilla P. Soucek.

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