The Mediation of Ornament - Brossura

Grabar, Oleg

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0691001561 ISBN 13: 9780691001562

Casa editrice: Bollingen Foundation, 1995

Riassunto

In this richly illustrated book, Oleg Grabar shares a veteran art historian's love for the sheer sensuality of ornamentation. Grabar analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects and uses this art to show how ornament in general enables a direct, immediate encounter between viewers and art objects from any culture and time period.

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Recensione:

"It is impossible to approach this profoundly stimulating book by Oleg Grabar without reflecting on the strange twists of fate that the discourse of ornament has undergone in the last two centuries.... Oleg Grabar takes up anew the challenge of using ornament to broach artistic questions."--Margaret Olin, The Art Bulletin

"This is writing that not only rewards but requires rereading.... If The Formation of Islamic Art was the most provocative and generously conceived book on its subject in the '70s, The Mediation of Ornament, with its expanded frame of reference and sense of personal urgency, may well assume that status for the '90s."--Holland Cotter, Art in America

"[Grabar's] book, written with a kindly wit and a keen intelligence, is beautifully illustrated, and itself illustrates the role of ornament in the world."--Bostonia

"Grabar seeks to understand the transmission of meaning from visual form to interpretation: what is it that mediates between the physical object and a viewer's understanding? He postulates that in Islamic art it is writing, geometry and (images of) architecture and nature, which together constitute ornament. . . . [This] is an honest statement of one scholar's personal intellectual journey. . . . Grabar's notes address intellectual issues and often summarize the history of interpretation of key monuments."--Mesa Bulletin

"An admirable treatise ... it offers its readers an exemplary interplay of art history and aesthetics. One receives a beautifully illustrated introduction to Islamic art, and each work earns its presence by serving to bring a theoretical issue to life. This is cross-fertilization at its very best."--Journal of Aesthetics and Art

Contenuti:

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction	3
Ch. I	A Theory of Intermediaries in Art	9
Ch. II	The Intermediary of Writing	47
Ch. III	The Intermediary of Geometry	119
Ch. IV	The Intermediary of Architecture	155
Ch. V	The Intermediary of Nature	195
	Conclusion: Some Implications	226
	Notes	239
	Index	281

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bollingen Foundation
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0691001561
• ISBN 13: 9780691001562
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 309