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- catalog abstract ""Oleg Grabar, in this book of exceptional subtlety and taste, surveys and extends his own important contributions to the study of early Islamic art history and works out an original and imaginative approach to the elusive and complex problems of understanding Islamic art. ... He has given us a stunning example of the creative possibilities that inhere in the tension between the study of concrete materials in accord with a specific discipline and reflection on the meaning of the specific subject for the civilization as a whole."--American Historical Review - back cover.".
- catalog contributor b673722.
- catalog created "1973.".
- catalog date "1973".
- catalog date "1973.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1973.".
- catalog description ""Oleg Grabar, in this book of exceptional subtlety and taste, surveys and extends his own important contributions to the study of early Islamic art history and works out an original and imaginative approach to the elusive and complex problems of understanding Islamic art. ... He has given us a stunning example of the creative possibilities that inhere in the tension between the study of concrete materials in accord with a specific discipline and reflection on the meaning of the specific subject for the civilization as a whole."--American Historical Review - back cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- The problem -- The land of early Islam -- The symbolic appropriation of the land -- Islamic attitudes toward the arts -- Islamic religious art : the mosque -- Islamic secular art : palace and city -- Early Islamic decoration : the idea of an Arabesque -- The formation of Islamic art -- Appendix : Chronology of the early Muslim world.".
- catalog extent "xix, 233, [80] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0300015054".
- catalog issued "1973".
- catalog issued "1973.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog subject "Islamic art History.".
- catalog subject "N6260 .G69X 1973".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The problem -- The land of early Islam -- The symbolic appropriation of the land -- Islamic attitudes toward the arts -- Islamic religious art : the mosque -- Islamic secular art : palace and city -- Early Islamic decoration : the idea of an Arabesque -- The formation of Islamic art -- Appendix : Chronology of the early Muslim world.".
- catalog title "The formation of Islamic art / by Oleg Grabar.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".