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Reframing the Alhambra

Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra – the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city – were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully explained until the invention of fractal geometry. Their design principles have been obscured, however, by the loss of all archival material. This book resolves that impasse by investigating the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through comparative study of Islamic court ceremonials. This reframing enables the reconstruction of the underlying, integrated aesthetic, focusing on the harmonious interrelationship between diverse artistic media —architecture, poetry and textiles — in the experience of the beholder, resulting in a new understanding of the Alhambra.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-01
Mått189 x 246 x 21 mm
Vikt830 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Antal sidor344
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474480901

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Olga Bush (Ph. D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) is Visiting Scholar of Islamic art and architecture at Vassar College. She has received national and international awards for her work on medieval Muslim Spain, cross-cultural interaction in the medieval Mediterranean, and modern European and American Orientalism, publishing numerous articles and co-editing, with Avinoam Shalem, Gazing Otherwise: Modalities of Seeing in and Beyond the Lands of Islam (2016).

List of FiguresSeries Editor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Colour, Design and Medieval OpticsChapter 2. Addressing the Beholder: The Work of Poetic InscriptionsChapter 3. Qalahurra of Yusuf I: A Case Study of a Tower-PalaceChapter 4. "Textile Architecture" in the Cuarto DoradoChapter 5. Integrating Aesthetic and Politics: The Mawlid Celebration in the AlhambraAppendixBibliographyIllustration AcknowledgmentsIndices