Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art (eBook)

Idries Trevathan (Autor)

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2020
288 Seiten
Saqi Books (Verlag)
978-0-86356-190-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour. The seventeenth-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, represents one of the finest examples of colour-use on a grand scale. Here, Trevathan examines the philosophical and mystical traditions that formed the mosque's backdrop. He shows how careful combinations of colour and design proportions in Islamic patterns expresses knowledge beyond that experienced in the corporeal world, offering another language with which to know and experience God. Colour thus becomes a spiritual language, calling for a re-consideration of how we read Islamic aesthetics.

Idries Trevathan is a curator and conservator of Islamic art collections. He regularly works on conservation projects and has conducted technical colour studies on a range of Islamic art objects, including the Malay Qur'an manuscripts and Ottoman porticoes in the grand mosque in Mecca.

Inhalt

List of Figures Introduction 1. The Intellectual Context 2. The Work of Art: Masjid-i Shah 3. Colour Systems 4. The Aesthetics of Colour 5. Light, Lustre and Luminosity 6. Colour and the Journey of the Mystic 7. Colour and Spirituality at the Time of the Safavids 8. Meaning within Masjid-i Shah Conclusion Bibliography Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 30 Colour Illustrations
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Schlagworte: Idreis Trevathan • Iran • Isfahan • Islamic Architecture • Islamic art • Masjid-i Shah • middle east architecture • Persian Art • Safavid period • Shah Mosque Isfahan • studies in colour
• ISBN-10: 0-86356-190-X / 086356190X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-86356-190-0 / 9780863561900