After One Hundred Years

The 1910 Exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" Reconsidered

Andrea Lermer, Avinoam Shalem (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2010
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-19001-6 (ISBN)

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the path-breaking exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" held in Munich in 1910. It offers new ideas and unpublished material on the exhibition's historical context, organization, display, reception in the West and its later influence on the study of Islamic art.

The exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" that took place in Munich in 1910 marked a turning point in the approach to Islamic Art. The show attempted to break free of Orientalism and exotic fantasies and, in doing so, set a new standard for the reception of Islamic art in Europe. Moreover, naming the Islamic artefacts masterpieces, it layed claim to bestow upon Islamic art “a place equal to that of other cultural periods”.
This book is the first comprehensive study on this path-breaking exhibition. It includes a wealth of unpublished material and numerous novel ideas on the subject and addresses the exhibition’s historical context, organization, realization and display as well as its reception in the West and its later influence on the study of Islamic art.

Andrea Lermer, Ph.D. (2002) in Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, has been trained as a museum curator in Munich and New York and is currently Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History at LMU Munich. Among her publications is the monograph Der gotische "Dogenpalast" in Venedig, (2005). Avinoam Shalem, Ph.D. (1996) University of Edinburgh, is Professor for the History of Islamic Art at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Fellow at the Kunsthistorische Institut in Florenz. He has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish art including Islam Christianized (second. ed. 1998); The Oliphant (2004); Facts and Artefacts: Art in the Islamic World. Festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th Birthday (2007). Contributors include Claus-Peter Haase, Annette Hagedorn, Amely Haslauer, Robert Hillenbrand, Joachim Kaak, Lorenz Korn, Steffen Krämer, Klaus Kreiser, Jens Kröger, Andrea Lermer, Suzanne Marchand, Stephen Vernoit, David J. Roxburgh, Avinoam Shalem, and Eva-Maria Troelenberg.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.8.2010
Reihe/Serie	Islamic History and Civilization ; 82
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	924 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-19001-5 / 9004190015
ISBN-13	978-90-04-19001-6 / 9789004190016
Zustand	Neuware