Facts and Artefacts - Art in the Islamic World: Festschrift for Jens Kroger on his 65th Birthday

by Annette Hagedorn, Avinoam Shalem

Overview

The scholarly search on the art of the object is of enduring interest and enjoys a new renaissance in the last few years. This book mainly explores the art and craft of Islamic artefacts and presents to the reader a diverse range of approaches. Despite this variety, in which also artefacts of the pre-Islamic, period as well as 'orientalized' European artefacts of the modern era are included, there is an overarching theme – the linking of the interpretation of objects and their specific aesthetics to textual sources and the aim of setting them in historical and artistic context.
In this impressive collection honouring the German scholar of Islamic art Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday, Avinoam Shalem and Annette Hagedorn bring together contributions from a highly distinguished group of scholars of Asiatic, Sasanian, Islamic as well as European art history. Unpublished artefacts and new interpretations are presented in this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004157828
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/13/2007
Series:	Islamic History and Civilization Series , #68
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Annette Hagedorn, Ph.D (1990) in Islamic Art History, University of Bonn, since 1993 research on the influence of Islamic Art on applied arts and art theory in Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Articles and the publications Auf der Suche nach dem neuen Stil (Berlin 1998), The Phenomenon of 'Foreign' in Oriental Art (Reichert, 2006)
Avinoam Shalem, Ph.D (1995), History of Art, University of Edinburgh, is professor of Islamic Art at Munich University. He has published extensively on Islamic 'minor arts' including Islam Christianized (Peter Lang, 2 ed., 1998), The Oliphant (Brill, 2004) and co-edited Austausch diplomatischer Geschenke in Spätantike und Byzanz (Reichert 2005).