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Aesthetics of art --- Art --- calligraphy [process] --- art criticism --- identity --- globalization --- gender [sociological concept] --- refugees --- Boullata, Kamal

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"How can we understand the past in the absence of written records? Pre-modern histories of cross-cultural exchange pose a particular problem for medieval historians. They are marked by the long-distance mobility of concepts, individuals, and materials, and many of them cannot be reconstructed from the standard source texts on which historians usually depend. They exist without named makers, both outside and beyond official documents and court chronicles. The same is true of artisans responsible for crafting objects whose circulation and reception defined aesthetic, economic, and technological networks that may not have conformed to political or sectarian boundaries. Authored by two leading medieval historians of the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, Object Lessons addresses the gaps in medieval sources and modern scholarship, arguing for the archival value of objects, images, and monuments. Flood and Fricke examine six case studies that focus on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. From the stone carvings at the churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia, which have no textual documentation, to medicinal bowls from Iraq for which some data can be gathered from unassociated but contemporary sources, these studies show how imagery and objects traveled across continents. The authors connect the histories of medieval Europe, Africa, and west Asia, and raise significant questions about "out of place" objects and how, in the absence of substantial archival material, we might write their histories. While there have been many publications on the histories of global circulation, most of them focus on the early modern period in Europe. By moving away from histories with abundant written archival material, Object Lessons ventures far beyond the narratives of Europe and into complex, cross-cultural and intercontinental histories of objects and images"-- "New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and images, Tales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century. Reflected in objects and materials whose circulation and reception defined aesthetic, economic, and technological networks that existed outside established political and sectarian boundaries, many of these histories are not documented in the written sources on which historians usually rely. Tales Things Tell charts bold new directions in art history, making a compelling case for the archival value of mobile artifacts and images in reconstructing the past. In this beautifully illustrated book, Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke present six illuminating case studies from the sixth to the thirteenth centuries to show how portable objects mediated the mobility of concepts, iconographies, and techniques. The case studies range from metalwork to stone reliefs, manuscript paintings, and objects using natural materials such as coconut and rock crystal. Whether as booty, commodities, gifts, or souvenirs, many of the objects discussed in Tales Things Tell functioned as sources of aesthetic, iconographic, or technical knowledge in the lands in which they came to rest. Remapping the histories of exchange between medieval Islam and Christendom, from Europe to the Indian Ocean, Tales Things Tell ventures beyond standard narratives drawn from written archival records to demonstrate the value of objects and images as documents of early globalisms"--

Civilization, Medieval --- Material culture --- Culture and globalization --- History --- ART / History / Medieval --- HISTORY / Africa / East --- Sources. --- Methodology --- World history --- History of civilization

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"This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 newly commissioned essays that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur"--

Drawing --- Islam --- decorative arts --- rugs [textiles] --- Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Islamic art. --- Islamic architecture. --- ART / History / General. --- decorative arts [discipline]

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According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.

Aesthetics --- Art and religion --- Religious literature --- Sacred books --- 291.8 --- 22:7 --- 22:7 Bible et art --- 22:7 Bijbel en kunst --- Bible et art --- Bijbel en kunst --- Religious aspects --- History and criticism --- Bronnen van de godsdienst: openbaring in heilige boeken en traditie; religieuze beslissingen --- 291.8 Bronnen van de godsdienst: openbaring in heilige boeken en traditie; religieuze beslissingen --- Art --- Arts in the church --- Religion and art --- Religion --- 091:22 --- 091:22 Bijbels--(handschriften) --- Bijbels--(handschriften) --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Art and religion. --- Religious aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Book illumination. --- Book religion. --- Materiality. --- Ornament.