Islamic Art and the Museum : Approaches to Art and Archaeology of the Muslim World in the Twenty-First Century / Edited by: Benoît Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber, Gerhard Wolf

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Saqi Books; 2013Description: 374p; 24x17cmISBN:

9780863564130

Subject(s):

N400-3990 Art museums, galleries, etc

DDC classification:

709.1767

Summary: Islamic Art and the Museum provides a historical and conceptual analysis of Islamic art and documents the successes and failings of its presentation in museums worldwide. The contributors challenge existing notions on the research, methodology, and analysis of Islamic art and investigate the extent to which socio-historical and anthropological approaches result in new analytical perspectives. They also examine the difficulties that need to be overcome when presenting Islamic art to avoid reducing the objects merely to the visual and aesthetic. Museums covered in detail include Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World Galleries and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ontario.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	SAF Reference Library Book Case #14	Visual Arts	N400-3990 14-N278 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		N400-3990 14-N278

Islamic Art and the Museum provides a historical and conceptual analysis of Islamic art and documents the successes and failings of its presentation in museums worldwide. The contributors challenge existing notions on the research, methodology, and analysis of Islamic art and investigate the extent to which socio-historical and anthropological approaches result in new analytical perspectives. They also examine the difficulties that need to be overcome when presenting Islamic art to avoid reducing the objects merely to the visual and aesthetic. Museums covered in detail include Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World Galleries and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ontario.

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