What is Islamic Art

dates, and define terms thefirst time that they occur. Thus terms relating to the history of religion and to critical methodolog ...

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Introduction From Islamic Art to Perceptual Culture Early one summer evening in Istanbul over a decade ago, as the evening darkn ...

the Crucifixion, we unconsciously reinforce our participation in an estab- lished cultural frame–whether or not we profess Chris ...

Islam and its arts, but also destabilizes some premises of disciplinary art history that claim global methodological utility. 0. ...

generations of creators, Dust Muhammad considers how people learned, but not what they produced; how their personal excellence t ...

This understanding of the dependence of human creativity on the divine, the glory of the world and its material traps, meanders ...

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), which describes the proper observer as necessarily distanced and disinterested. This enables him to g ...

distances itself from Hegelianism, the discipline’s maintenance of the object as a metonym for collective culture, its dependenc ...

becomes defined as a set of precepts or beliefs to which one rationally adheres, ignoring how religion functions as well as a mo ...

thought liberated form from context. Objects thus became independent markers of history. In contrast to earlier pattern books es ...

personified as Synagogia, symbolized as a woman blindfolded to signify the dogmatic adherence to scripture attributed to the Jew ...

globalizing these paradigms, it has recognized the art of other cultures to the extent that it suits thisfilter. When applied ou ...

The simultaneous dispersal of modern bureaucratic, educational, and epistemic systems under both direct colonialism and voluntar ...

theory, but afield of scientificity, and which it is possible to say are true or false. The episteme is the‘apparatus’which make ...

example, the 2011 reconstruction of the Islamic galleries at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, secularized and regionaliz ...

inadvertently perpetuates rather than disavows the persistent and troublesome generalizations made by others. Such reviews sugge ...

which material evidence leaps from precise analysis to broad cultural representations, which ultimately become woven into a narr ...

predominance of industrial arts over single works of art, the apparent requirement of a physical context, the practical usefulne ...

Contrary to Blair and Bloom’s assertion that meaning depends on homo- geneity, traditions function in the intersections between ...