TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kröger,Jens
AU  - Hagedorn,Annette
AU  - Shalem,Avinoam
TI  - Facts and artefacts: art in the Islamic world : festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday 
T2  - Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts,
SN  - 9789047422815
AV  - N6260 .F27 2007eb
U1  - 709.5609/02 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Islamic art
KW  - Art islamique
KW  - ART
KW  - Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Islamische Kunst
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kunstvoorwerpen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Islamitische wereld
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; "Jens Kröger's list of publications": pages xix-xxvii; Introduction and Acknowledgements; Tabula Gratulatoria; Note on Transliteration; Jens Kröger: an Academic Profile; Jens Kröger's List of Publications; GLASS, ROCK CRYSTAL AND GLYPTIC ART; METAL AND IVORY; THE ILLUSTRATED PAGE; ISLAMIC ART AND THE WEST; ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHITECTURALDECORATION; Index of Proper Names; Index of Places; Index of General Subjects and Terms
N2  - The scholarly search on the art of the object is of enduring interest and enjoys a new renaissance in the last few years. This book mainly explores the art and craft of Islamic artefacts and presents to the reader a diverse range of approaches. Despite this variety, in which also artefacts of the pre-Islamic, period as well as 'orientalized' European artefacts of the modern era are included, there is an overarching theme - the linking of the interpretation of objects and their specific aesthetics to textual sources and the aim of setting them in historical and artistic context. In this impress
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