Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period

Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period
Author: Charles Kyrle Wilkinson
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1973
Genre: Islamic pottery
ISBN: 0870990764

The city of Nishapur, located in eastern Iran, was a place of political importance in medieval times and a flourishing center of art, crafts, and trade. This publication studies the pottery found at the site at Nishapur excavated by the Iranian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum in 1935–40 and again in 1947. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Early Islamic Pottery

Early Islamic Pottery
Author: Anne-Marie Keblow Bernsted
Publisher: Archetype Books
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781873132982

An illustrated volume in two parts (Ceramic Raw Materials and Technique and Chemical and Petrographic Investigations), this volume makes the pottery of the early Islamic Period accessible to those interested in ceramic techniques - manufacture, materials and pigments of both body and glazes.

Ceramics of Iran

Ceramics of Iran
Author: Oliver Watson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300254288

A beautifully illustrated showcase of the rich and varied ceramic tradition of Iran Featuring a broad selection of objects from one of the most distinguished collections of Iranian art, this volume brings together over 1,000 years of Persian Islamic pottery. With more than 500 illustrations, authoritative technical treatises, and insightful commentary, Ceramics of Iran assembles a collection of rarely seen treasures from the Persian world and presents a collective history of its renowned ceramic tradition. Included among its comprehensive catalogue entries are numerous translations of the object’s inscriptions, providing readers with a richer and more detailed understanding of the cultural heritage from which these items are derived. In addition, the book contains new research and material from previously unknown sites. Featuring all new photography of nearly 250 objects, Ceramics of Iran brings the extraordinary contributions of Persian art into a wider historical context, along with a wealth of images to demonstrate the full scope of its intricate beauty.

Ceramics from Islamic Lands

Ceramics from Islamic Lands
Author: Oliver Watson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2006-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780500976340

In this richly illustrated volume, Oliver Watson presents a comprehensive history of ceramics from Islamic lands. Clear and informative essays examine the art, archaeology and collecting of Islamic pottery, ceramic families and technical traditions, and Islamic pottery over five centuries. This is an important book that provides a whole new framework for the understanding and study of Islamic ceramics, and will be of great interest to the general reader as well as being an invaluable reference work for the student and specialist.

A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture

A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture
Author: Finbarr Barry Flood
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1442
Release: 2017-06-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1119068576

The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)

Nishapur

Nishapur
Author: Jens Kröger
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1995
Genre: Glass, Islamic
ISBN: 0870997297

In 1935-40 and again in 1947, the Iranian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum excavated the city of Nishapur, a flourishing center in medieval times located in eastern Iran. This is the fourth volume in a series dedicated to publishing the finds. It presents a survey of glass of the early Islamic period throughout the Near East, discusses the significance of the Nishapur glass findings, and provides a catalogue of the finds with a focus on glass-decorating techniques. Map and site plans, a glossary, a concordance, and an extensive bibliography are included. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Arts of Fire

The Arts of Fire
Author: Catherine Hess
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2004
Genre: Art, Islamic
ISBN: 089236758X

Students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance easily fall under the spell of its achievements: its self-confident humanism, its groundbreaking scientific innovations, its ravishing artistic production. Yet many of the developments in Italian ceramics and glass were made possible by Italy's proximity to the Islamic world. The Arts of Fire underscores how central the Islamic influence was on this luxury art of the Italian Renaissance. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum on view from May 4 to August 5, 2004, The Arts of Fire demonstrates how many of the techniques of glass and ceramic production and ornamentation were first developed in the Islamic East between the eighth and twelfth centuries. These techniques - enamel and gilding on glass and tin-glaze and lustre on ceramics - produced brilliant and colourful decoration that was a source of awe and admiration, transforming these crafts, for the first time, into works of art and true luxury commodities. Essays by Catherine Hess, George Saliba, and Linda Komaroff demonstrate early modern Europe's debts to the Islamic world and help us better understand the interrelationships of cultures over time.

Ceramics of the Islamic World

Ceramics of the Islamic World
Author: Geza Fehervari
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2000-03-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781860644306

In discussing the alluring tile work of the Islamic artistic tradition, particularly the faience mosaics found in Iran and Central Asia during the fourteenth century, the author also discusses buildings which were decorated by this technique." "Ceramics of the Islamic World draws largely on the rich collection of the Tareq Rajab Museum, with its great strength in early Islamic pottery."--BOOK JACKET.

Arts and Culture in the Early Islamic World

Arts and Culture in the Early Islamic World
Author: Lizann Flatt
Publisher: Life in the Early Islamic Worl
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778721741

Explores art in the Islamic world, including architecture, decoration, household objects, books, music, and illustrations.