Volume IV lays special emphasis on the study of specific forms of Islamic Art that have hitherto been neither truly understood nor properly interpreted, focusing on aspects of iconography--objects and their forms and specific meanings--the elements of painting and the illustrations of specific texts, and the development of specific architectural features.
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Volume IV lays special emphasis on the study of specific forms of Islamic Art that have hitherto been neither truly understood nor properly interpreted, focusing on aspects of iconography--objects and their forms and specific meanings--the elements of painting and the illustrations of specific texts, and the development of specific architectural features.
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Very good+ condition. Book. Quarto (4to). xvi, 16 pages of color plates, followed by 495 pages of text. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear including minor creasing to the spine. Contains numerous black-and-white illustrations. Authors include Marianne Barrucand, Ernst J. Grube, Bernard O'Kane, Aptullah Kuran, A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, Eleanor Sims, Zeren Tanindi, and Salome Zajadacz-Hastenrath. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition.
