Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial - Couverture souple

Bush, Olga

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147448090X ISBN 13 : 9781474480901

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra - the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city - were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully explained until the invention of fractal geometry. Their design principles have been obscured, however, by the loss of all archival material. This book resolves that impasse by investigating the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through comparative study of Islamic court ceremonials. This reframing enables the reconstruction of the underlying, integrated aesthetic, focusing on the harmonious interrelationship between diverse artistic media --architecture, poetry and textiles -- in the experience of the beholder, resulting in a new understanding of the Alhambra.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Olga Bush (Ph. D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) is Visiting Scholar of Islamic art and architecture at Vassar College. She has received national and international awards for her work on medieval Muslim Spain, cross-cultural interaction in the medieval Mediterranean, and modern European and American Orientalism, publishing numerous articles and co-editing, with Avinoam Shalem, Gazing Otherwise: Modalities of Seeing in and Beyond the Lands of Islam (2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147448090X
• ISBN 13: 9781474480901
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
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• Personne responsable: non disponible