Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art

Erstverkaufstag: 10.09.2024

Langbeschreibung
The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture hashistorically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examinesthe language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with itsaesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience ofinterpreting colour.
Idries Trevathan is a curator andconservator with close to twenty years' experience working with Islamic artcollections in the Muslim world and beyond. Trevathan works regularly onconservation projects and has conducted technical and aesthetic colour studieson a range of Islamic art, including the nineteenth-century Malay Qur'anmanuscripts, eighteenth- to nineteenth-century Damascene reception rooms and sixteenth-centuryOttoman porticoes in the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Trevathan trained as an artconservator at the City & Guilds of London Art School and earned a PhD incolour in Islamic art from the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London.
ISBN-13:
9780863560606
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.09.2024
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Idries Trevathan
Format:
229x152x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch

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