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Idries Trevathan Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art
- Publication Name
- Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art
- Title
- Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9780863561450
- ISBN
- 9780863561450
- Publisher
- Saqi Books
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Middle Eastern
- Release Date
- 17/02/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In his approach to the study of colour in Islamic art, Trevathan creates meaningful dialogue between artistic production, artistic media, and the intellectual, aesthetic and philosophical concepts relating to the subject. Here, he proposes an enlightened new approach to the way we consider colour in Islamic art and architecture. Examining works in relation to their aesthetic contexts, he reveals the relevance of choice colours used in artworks, which in turn provides insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of colour and aesthetics. The seventeenth-century Masjid-i Shah mosque in Isfahan, Iran, represents one of the finest examples of colour-use on a grand scale. The building of Masjid-i Shah emerged alongside, or as a result of, a culmination of writings on light and colour by some of the most important scholars in Islamic and Persian history. Trevathan examines the philosophical and mystical traditions that formed the backdrop of the Masjid-i Shah, revealing the differences in how such artworks were conceptualized at the time of creation and how they are received today. Through addressing the artistic production of this masterpiece of Islamic architecture, Trevathan shows that the careful combination of colour and design proportions in Islamic patterns expresses knowledge beyond those perceived in the corporeal world. This includes how the experience of bright and luminous colours may have served an epistemological function leading towards a noetic understanding of God. This suggests that a broader consideration of Islamic aesthetics is required, one that encompasses the potential for sensual experience to prompt a journey beyond sentient knowledge.
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Publisher
Saqi Books
ISBN-10
0863561454
ISBN-13
9780863561450
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038513018
Product Key Features
Book Title
Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Middle Eastern
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
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Table of Content
INTRODUCTION Scope versus limitations Chapter outline CHAPTER ONE. CONTEXTUAL REVIEW Art Historical Approach Perennialism and the Symbolism of colour Aesthetics and new directions in Islamic art history Summary of Contextual Review CHAPTER TWO. THE WORK OF ART: MASJID-I SHAH Brief Review of Current Conceptions of the Safavid Context The Building Project: Transformation of Isfahan and the Maydan The Building Itself: Masjid-i Shah and Its Decoration The Building: Personalities, the Architects, Engineers and Planners Colour in the Building: Haft Rang (Seven Colours) CHAPTER THREE. COLOUR SYSTEMS Colour in the Qur'an Implicit and Explicit Colours in the Qur'an Qur'an, Colour and Interpretation Colour Theory Colour Mixtures in Contemporary Texts A Value Based Colour System: Recent Scholarship CHAPTER FOUR. THE AESTHETICS OF COLOUR The "Quantitative" Aesthetics of Proportion The "Qualitative" Aesthetics of Light and Colour The Contemplative Gaze Summary and Conclusions CHAPTER FIVE. LIGHT, LUSTRE AND LUMINOSITY Descriptions of Colour and Light: Reception of Materials The Peacock's Plumage and the Colours of Abu Qalamun Pearls, Precious Stones and Light Dark and Light: Marble, Onyx, and Alabaster in Buildings Materials, Light, Colour and Perception Colour, Light and Wonder Creating Sensations of Light Artists, Materials, Wonder and Transformations Summary and conclusion CHAPTER SIX. COLOUR AND THE JOURNEY OF THE MYSTIC Colour Theophany and Emanationism Colour and the Process of Transformation The Kubrawiyya Order and the Hermeneutic of Colour Nizami and the Haft Paykar Summary and conclusion CHAPTER SEVEN. COLOUR AND SPIRITUALITY AT THE TIME OF THE SAFAVIDS Development of the School of Isfahan and the Safavid Understanding of Colour Sheikh Baha'i: Chief Architect of the Masjid-i Shah, Founder of the School of Isfahan The Influence of Suhrawardi and Hikmat al Ishraq Mir Damad and the Revival of Hikmat at the School of Isfahan Mulla Sadra and the 'Imaginal world' "The World of the Imagination" and Art and Colour Artists and the Subtle World Kirmani and a "Phenomenology of Colour" Kirmani and Seven Colours (Haft rang) Summary and conclusion CONCLUSION Masjid-i Shah Revisited Al-Haytham's Visual Perception and the Masjid-i Shah Awe, Colour, Light and Luminosity Colour, Light, Lustre, and Pattern Colour in Operation: The Continuing Process of Perception Reconsidering Materials: Paying Attention to Materials and Associations Depicting the Transcendent: 'alam al-Mithal Methodology Areas for Further Development Final Thoughts BIBLIOGRAPHY
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
709.1767
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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