Oleg Grabar
Oleg Grabar (1929–2011) was Harvard's first Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture before joining the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
Grabar, Oleg
Grabar, Oleg
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Description: Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250
~It was in 1959 that the late Professor Richard Ettinghausen asked me to collaborate with him on a Pelican volume devoted to Islamic art. Over the following five or six years, we planned the book and wrote a great deal of it. But somehow, when we had in fact completed nearly every chapter up to the Mongol conquest of the thirteenth century, other pressures...
PublisherYale University Press
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Description: Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250
~However much admiration can and should be legitimately bestowed upon the many volumes of the Pelican History of Art inspired by the late Sir Nikolaus Pevsner since the foundation of the series in 1953, readers’ expectations regarding the appearance of books dealing with the arts have greatly changed during the last decades. When the series was taken...
PublisherYale University Press
Description: Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00202
Yale University Press/Pelican History of Art

This classic book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. The volume focuses special attention on the development of numerous regional centers of art in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Yemen, as well as the western and northeastern provinces of Iran. It traces the cultural and artistic evolution of such centers in the seminal early Islamic period and examines the wealth of different ways of creating a beautiful environment and provides new classifications of architecture and architectural decoration, the art of the object, and the art of the book.

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Print publication date February 2002 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300088670
EISBN 9780300256031
Illustrations 501
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Description: The Formation of Islamic Art
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00135
This classic work on the nature of early Islamic art has now been brought up to date in order to take into consideration material that has recently come to light. In a new chapter, Oleg Grabar develops alternate models for the formation of Islamic art, tightens its chronology, and discusses its implications for the contemporary art of the Muslim world.

2nd revised, enlarged edition

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Print publication date September 1987 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300040463
EISBN 9780300232479
Illustrations 133
Print Status in print