Description
Tracing the currents of change that unite the visual and material culture of the Islamic world across space and time
The seas have long served as both connective tissue for and barriers between intellectual, social, and artistic traditions. Nowhere is this dual role more evident than within the visual and material cultures of the Islamic world. This remarkable new book brings together an international group of scholars and curators whose contributions address seafaring mobility's profound effect on Islamic art. Their case studies range across the globe and span a period from Islam's 1st century to today. Contributors examine the roles of importation and migration, travel, diplomacy, and gift giving in driving artistic innovation and changing the social, political, and religious institutions of an increasingly diverse Islamic world. Taken together, these chapters embody a distinctive big-picture approach, pulling an exceptional diversity of voices and topics into productive dialogue.
About the Author
Radha Dalal is assistant professor and Jochen Sokoly is associate professor of Islamic art and architecture in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, Qatar. Sean Roberts is lecturer in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Reviews
"[The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art] is a very welcome and admirable contribution to a topic right at the forefront of the study of Islamic visual and cultural material and should provide an excellent model for future symposium-related publications."-Cailah Jackson, English Historical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780300256888
Author Radha Dalal
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
The seas have long served as both connective tissue for and barriers between intellectual, social, and artistic traditions. Nowhere is this dual role more evident than within the visual and material cultures of the Islamic world. This remarkable new book brings together an international group of scholars and curators whose contributions address seafaring mobility's profound effect on Islamic art. Their case studies range across the globe and span a period from Islam's 1st century to today. Contributors examine the roles of importation and migration, travel, diplomacy, and gift giving in driving artistic innovation and changing the social, political, and religious institutions of an increasingly diverse Islamic world. Taken together, these chapters embody a distinctive big-picture approach, pulling an exceptional diversity of voices and topics into productive dialogue.
About the Author
Radha Dalal is assistant professor and Jochen Sokoly is associate professor of Islamic art and architecture in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, Qatar. Sean Roberts is lecturer in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Reviews
"[The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art] is a very welcome and admirable contribution to a topic right at the forefront of the study of Islamic visual and cultural material and should provide an excellent model for future symposium-related publications."-Cailah Jackson, English Historical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780300256888
Author Radha Dalal
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
