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Arabic Script: Styles, Variants, and Calligraphic Adaptations
ISBN: 9780789208798 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating guide to the Arabic alphabet and writing styles also offers an ample and thorough overview of a culture and a civilization.
This enlightening book helps us discover an alphabet that throughout the centuries has been linked to the secular and religious worlds of Islam. The text explains the history and meaning of each letter, as well as its philosophical, theological, and cultural significance, and 300 two-color and black-and-white pictures illustrate the letters, their variants, and calligraphic adaptations. An ideal book for linguists, graphic designers, and... This fascinating guide to the Arabic alphabet and writing styles also offers an ample and thorough overview of a culture and a civilization. |
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85,88 zł |
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Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
ISBN: 9780804754774 / Angielski / Miękka / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Egyptian art world is the oldest and largest in the Arab Middle East. Its artists must reckon with the histories of ancient Egypt, European modernism, anti-colonial nationalism, and state socialism-all in the context of a growing neoliberal economy marked by American global dominance. At this crucial intersection of culture, politics, and economy, Egypt's art and artists provide unique insight into current struggles for cultural identity and sovereignty in the Middle East. This book examines the heated cultural politics in today's Arab world, and tells how art-making has become an...
The Egyptian art world is the oldest and largest in the Arab Middle East. Its artists must reckon with the histories of ancient Egypt, European modern...
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121,51 zł |
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Chant Avedissian: Cairo Stencils
ISBN: 9780863560804 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. In his colorful stenciled images, Chant Avedissian deftly explores the boundaries between "high" and "low" art, politics and pop, the ephemeral and the enduring, and Egypt and the world. Avedissian refined his techniques in Western art schools, but he draws inspiration from Egypt's modern Golden Age, with its glamorous divas and mustachioed movie stars. In his colorful stenciled images, Chant Avedissian deftly explores the boundaries between "high" and "low" art, politics and pop, the ephemeral an... |
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62,31 zł |
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Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking
ISBN: 9780870700859 / Angielski / Twarda / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but live elsewhere: that origin is increasingly becoming a defining term in the consideration of works by artists such as Mona Hatoum and Shirin Neshat. Resisting any homogenizing impulse, Without Boundary recognizes a need to ask if this art is marked by an Islamic difference. Author and curator Fereshteh Daftari considers issues ranging from the aesthetic legacy of Islamic art to contemporary ideas of identity and faith. Essays by MoMA Director...
The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but ...
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125,90 zł |
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Islamic Tiles
ISBN: 9781566565721 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ceramic tiles have been produced for over a thousand years in the heartlands of the Islamic world, from Iraq in the ninth century to Turkey in the nineteenth. Superb color photographs and informative text make this book a treasure for anyone Interested in art Venetia Porter is a curator in the Department of Coins & Medals in the British Museum.
Ceramic tiles have been produced for over a thousand years in the heartlands of the Islamic world, from Iraq in the ninth century to Turkey in the nin...
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84,21 zł |
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Islamic Art and Archaeology in Palestine
ISBN: 9781598740646 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Despite political upheavals under Muslim domination in the Middle Ages, Palestine was a center of great artistic activity recognized for its incredible dynamism. Its unique contribution to the Islamic "macrocosm," however, never became the subject of extensive study. Numerous archeological excavations on this relatively small geographic area reveal the existence of extremely well preserved monuments of high architectural quality and exceptional religious value. This is what Myriam Rosen-Ayalon exposes in this thorough introduction to Palestinian Islamic art and archeology. In chronological...
Despite political upheavals under Muslim domination in the Middle Ages, Palestine was a center of great artistic activity recognized for its incredibl...
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175,21 zł |
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Atlas of Egyptian Art
ISBN: 9789774161209 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This enchanted tour of Egyptian art by one of its early explorers is one of the most beautiful modern works on ancient Egyptian art. Prisse d'Avennes' monumental work, first published in Paris over a ten-year period between 1868 and 1878, includes the only surviving record of many lost artifacts.
''None of Prisse's contemporaries had the skill or endurance to bring such an endeavor to such a brilliant end. He was far ahead of his time in his awareness of the vulnerability of the monuments and the need to protect them and to record them. His were the first reliable drawings of Egyptian... This enchanted tour of Egyptian art by one of its early explorers is one of the most beautiful modern works on ancient Egyptian art. Prisse d'Avennes'...
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79,59 zł |
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Enchanted Jewelry of Egypt: The Traditional Art and Craft
ISBN: 9789774249013 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For many women of Egypt, their jewelry is their bank???they wear their wealth in their gold. But jewelry in Egypt is also more than mere assets, and its design and manufacture reveal a great array of styles and a high degree of skill and artistry. In this lavishly illustrated book, Azza Fahmy, herself a world-renowned designer of jewelry based on traditional motifs, lays before us an Aladdin??'s cave of jewelry made in all corners of Egypt over the last one hundred years, collected through her extensive travels throughout the country. From the farms and villages of the Nile Valley and Delta,...
For many women of Egypt, their jewelry is their bank???they wear their wealth in their gold. But jewelry in Egypt is also more than mere assets, and i...
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210,63 zł |
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Reflections on Palestinian Art: Art of Resistance or Aesthetics
ISBN: 9781517234379 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this book, Faten Nastas Mitwasi views Palestinian history through art. She presents an excellent overview of Palestinian art and, more importantly, she analyzes it in the context of the different historical phases in which it was produced. Nastas presents a brief account of the development of Palestinian art throughout history, but her primary focus is on Palestinian art produced during the 20th century and beginning of 21st century. The book offers in-depth reflections and examines the works of contemporary Palestinian artists in relation to the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, the art theory...
In this book, Faten Nastas Mitwasi views Palestinian history through art. She presents an excellent overview of Palestinian art and, more importantly,...
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131,92 zł |
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Miniature Painting in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century Volume II
ISBN: 9780884022022 / Angielski / Twarda / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. |
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627,98 zł |
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Islamic Calligraphy
ISBN: 9780748635405 / Angielski / Miękka / 681 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Joint Winner of the 2007 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize for Middle Eastern StudiesWinner of 2008 World Prize for Book of the Year by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic GuidanceSelected as a 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThe extensive use of writing is a hallmark of Islamic civilization. Calligraphy became one of the main methods of artistic expression from the seventh century to the present in almost all regions from the far Maghrib to India and beyond. Arabic script was adopted for other languages from Persian and Turkish to Kanembu and Malay.Islamic Calligraphy...
Joint Winner of the 2007 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize for Middle Eastern StudiesWinner of 2008 World Prize for Book of the Year by the Iran...
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315,42 zł |
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KILIM
ISBN: 9780500282212 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Bold, distinctive pattems; brilliant colours; astonishingly diverse decoration; affordability. These are some of the characteristics that explain why the marvellous flatwoven textiles known to the West as kilims have become so popular. In recent years, demand for them has reached unprecedented levels and there is now a need for a definitive work on the whole vast subject.
Bold, distinctive pattems; brilliant colours; astonishingly diverse decoration; affordability. These are some of the characteristics that explain why ...
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165,86 zł |
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African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists: Signatures and Monograms from 1800
ISBN: 9780810863576 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around the world. Whether used to identify, authenticate, or verify signatures and works of both well-known and little-known artists, Castagno's work has no equal. In this new volume, Castagno has collected the signatures and monograms of artists from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East--including signature examples of artists from China, India, Japan, South Africa, Israel, and many other countries. In addition to the standard signature entries, the book...
John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around t...
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987,78 zł |
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Image Making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the Early Muslim World: Images and Cultures
ISBN: 9780754659495 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attention to art historical relations as shown by technical, iconographic and diplomatic exchanges. While addressed to specialists, both their approach and the language make these papers accessible to students at all levels.
Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attention...
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623,24 zł |
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Studies in the Decorative Arts of the Muslim World
ISBN: 9780907132790 / Angielski / Twarda / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A selection of twelve previously published papers by Ernst Grube which examine specific materials used in Islamic decorative arts. Six papers examine pottery and tiles, one considers Ilkhanis stucco work as represented in the mausoleum of the Shaykh Muhammad ibn Bakran and four explore the decorative arts of the Timuris period. Illustrations have been enhanced and the selection updated with additional notes and an extensive bibliography.
A selection of twelve previously published papers by Ernst Grube which examine specific materials used in Islamic decorative arts. Six papers examine ...
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1317,23 zł |
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The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts: Thirteen Centuries of Glory from Hte Umayyads to the Ottomans
ISBN: 9781935295020 / Angielski / Twarda / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Containing more than 40,000 pieces art from the Seljuk and Ottoman empires as well as other Muslim civilizations, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts is a rich and inspiring place to visit. The best of their collection-from stone, wood, and ceramic pieces to handmade carpets and calligraphy-filled manuscripts-is vividly presented in this lustrous guide. This is a must for all libraries and those specializing in the study of Islamic or Turkish-Islamic art.
Containing more than 40,000 pieces art from the Seljuk and Ottoman empires as well as other Muslim civilizations, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Ar...
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269,27 zł |
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Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity
ISBN: 9780292721371 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate jewelry. Their extraordinarily detailed arts are rich in cultural symbolism; they are always breathtakingly beautiful--and they are typically made by women. Like other Amazigh (Berber) groups (but in contrast to the Arab societies of North Africa), the Ait Khabbash have entrusted their artistic responsibilities to women. Cynthia Becker spent years in Morocco living among these women and, through... In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, pa... |
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111,03 zł |
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Baghdad Arts Deco: Architectural Brickwork, 1920-1950
ISBN: 9789774163562 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An homage to the modern architectural landscape of Iraq. Despite dictatorship, international sanctions, and the ravages of war, Baghdad endures with a surprisingly exceptional modern architectural heritage. This beautifully illustrated study reveals the splendors of early twentieth-century architecture that still stand on the streets of Iraq's capital. From 1920 to 1950, in the process of nation-building, Baghdad was transformed into a true city built of brick, one that became the harbinger of the Arab architectural renaissance, its local traditions reinterpreted and adapted into a...
An homage to the modern architectural landscape of Iraq. Despite dictatorship, international sanctions, and the ravages of war, Baghdad endures wi...
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158,24 zł |
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Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
ISBN: 9780300164640 / Angielski / Miękka / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. Light of the Sufis introduces the complex and multilayered topic of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, by concentrating on its expression in the visual arts and offers new insights into the integrative and fluid nature of the Sufi experience that has solicited strong reactions--both negative and positive--in Muslims and non-Muslims alike for several hundred years. Sufism became well established in the 9th to 10th century and reached its height in the 12th to 13th century. From its inception, Sufism recognized the traditions and practices of other faiths and cultures with which it... Light of the Sufis introduces the complex and multilayered topic of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, by concentrating on its expression in the ... |
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95,36 zł |
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Twentieth-Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei
ISBN: 9789774163944 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Egypt's modern art scene has been marked by many influential local and foreign painters. Mona Abaza retraces the highlights of the country's twentieth-century art world through the private collection of one of Cairo's most reputable private gallery owners, Sherwet Shafei. The 200 color reproductions of paintings from Sherwet Shafei's collection represent works from very early pioneers such as Mahmoud Said and Ragheb Ayad to later figures such as Hamed Nada and Youssef Sida.
In a comprehensive introduction that examines the life and career of Sherwet Shafei and her pivotal role in... Egypt's modern art scene has been marked by many influential local and foreign painters. Mona Abaza retraces the highlights of the country's twentieth...
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216,93 zł |
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