Islamic Art in the 19th Century

Tradition, Innovation, and Eclecticism

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvDoris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit

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This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it. Beginning with an historical introduction and an assessment of changing attitudes towards the visual arts the following essays provide case studies of architecture and art in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. They examine such issues as patronage, sources of artistic inspiration and responses to European art. The essays have a relevance and importance for our understanding of the societies and attitudes of that time, and have a direct bearing on the more general debate concerning cultural identity and the integration of modern ideas in the Muslim world. The book is richly illustrated with very many illustrations in black-and-white and in full colour.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-03-05
Mått155 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt700 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor446
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004291591

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Doris Behrens-Abouseif is Professor emerita at SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies), University London. Before joining SOAS she taught at the American University in Cairo and at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich in Germany. Among her books are Egypt’s Adjustment to Ottoman Rule (Leiden/ New York/Köln, 1994); Beauty in Arabic Culture (Princeton, 1999); Cairo of the Mamluks (London/Cairo, 2007); Practicing Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate: Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World (London, 2014). Stephen Vernoit, D.Phil. (1990) at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, was research fellow in Islamic art and architecture at St. Antony’s College and has subsequently lectured on Islamic history and art at Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco and at Durham University in England. His publications include Occidentalism: Islamic Art in the 19th Century (1997).