Grabar, Oleg

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.

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Preface to the First Edition

Oleg Grabar

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...

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Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

PublisherYale University Press

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Preface to the Second Edition

Oleg Grabar and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

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...

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Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

PublisherYale University Press

Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250

Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

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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Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date February 2002 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300088670

EISBN 9780300256031

Illustrations 501

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