Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture (eBook)

A Cartography of Boundaries in and of the Field

Salgirli Saygin Salgirli (Herausgeber)

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2021
272 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4187-8 (ISBN)

Infos

When we walk into a gallery, we have a fairly good idea where the building begins and ends; and inside, while observing a painting, we are equally confident in distinguishing between the painting-proper and its frame and borders. Yet, things are often more complicated. A building defines an exterior space just as much as an interior, and what we perceive to be ornamental and marginal to a given painting may in fact be central to what it represents. In this volume, a simple question is presented: instead of dichotomous separations between inside and outside, or exterior and interior, what other relationships can we think of?The first book of its kind to grapple with this question, Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture focuses on a wide spectrum of mediums and topics, including painted manuscripts, objects, architectural decoration, architecture and urban planning, and photography. Bringing together scholars with diverse methodologies-who work on a geographical span stretching from India to Spain and Nigeria, and across a temporal spectrum from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century-this original book also poses engaging questions about the boundaries of the field.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• ISBN-10: 1-5013-4187-1 / 1501341871
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-4187-8 / 9781501341878