In this richly illustrated book, Oleg Grabar shares a veteran art historian's love for the sheer sensuality of ornamentation. Grabar analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects and uses this art to show how ornament in general enables a direct, immediate encounter between viewers and art objects from any culture and time period.
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Based on the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, which Grabar delivered in 1989 at the National Gallery of Art, ornament is defined as "an agent that is not logically necessary to the perception of a visual message but without which the process of understanding would be more difficult." Grabar examines this idea in the context of early Islamic art, frequently drawing comparisons to Western works of art. According to the author, four forces were important in the development of ornament: writing (i.e., calligraphy), geometry, architecture, and nature. The book is beautifully designed, with each work amply identified, and the author's clear, lucid style enables the reader to follow the ideas easily. The illustrations are reproduced well, although some are less clear than they should be. But the deplorable practice of putting footnotes at the end of the volume prevails. Recommended for scholarly collections.
- Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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An admirable treatise ... it offers its readers an exemplary interplay of art history and aesthetics. One receives a beautifully illustrated introduction to Islamic art, and each work earns its presence by serving to bring a theoretical issue to life. This is cross-fertilization at its very best. -- Review
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