Edinburgh University Press
Iranian Art from the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic
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About this book
Linda Komaroff, long-time curator of the Art of the Middle East at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), has pioneered in the study and exhibition of Islamic art to include contemporary works. Her interests have long focused on the arts of Iran. With this volume her friends and colleagues celebrate her broad scope with essays exploring many new areas. These 13 essays examine different media, including architecture, manuscripts, portable arts and textiles, as well as the contemporary arts of painting, photography, printmaking and video, from the early Islamic period to the present. In addition to traditional approaches to art-historical scholarship, such as textual analysis, connoisseurship, design, technical and material analysis, and archaeology, the contributors take on such newer themes as gift giving, the diaspora of Iranian art, political art, the relationship of the present to the past or vice versa, and the connections between Iranian art and the arts of the West. Some essays also deal with music and dance.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Figures
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The Contributors
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Series Editor’s Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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INTRODUCTION: Celebrating the Career, Writings and Exhibitions of Linda Komaroff
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CHAPTER 1 A Mongol Historian Looks at Art: Abu’l-Qasim Qashani’s Description of Sultaniyya
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CHAPTER 2 From Memory to Drawing: The Evolution of Islamic Design
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CHAPTER 3 A Reflection on Armour of Then and Now
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CHAPTER 4 Allusive Expressions: Siah Armajani’s Persian-period Collages (1957–64)
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CHAPTER 5 Ceramic Decals on Minaʾi Wares
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CHAPTER 6 An Overview of Islamic Artefacts Brought to Pre-Modern Japan: Glass, Ceramics, Textiles, Metalwork and Calligraphy
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CHAPTER 7 The Baysunghur Kutubkhana and Emulation in the Arts of the Book
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CHAPTER 8 Shahpour Pouyan
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CHAPTER 9 Musical Life in Seventeenth-century Isfahan
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CHAPTER 10 Gift-giving between Iran and Iberia from Timur to Tahmasp
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CHAPTER 11 A Speculation on the Design of the Ardabil Carpets
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CHAPTER 12 Minaʾi from Fustat: An Iranian Spoke in a Fatimid Ceramic Wheel
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CHAPTER 13 A Queer Palimpsest: Historical Layers in Salman Toor’s The Bar on East 13th Street
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Appendix: Linda Komaroff: Selected Bibliography
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Index
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