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The image debate: figural representation in Islam and across the world

The image debate: figural representation in Islam and across the world
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ISBN 9781909942349 (hardcover)
Title The image debate : figural representation in Islam and across the world / edited by Christiane Gruber
Publisher London : Ginko, 2019
Physical desc. 240 pages ; illustrations ; 30 cm.
Series Ginko Library art series
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Idols and figural images in Islam: a brief dive into a perennial debate / Christiane Gruber -- Part 1: Pre-modern Islam. 'Painters will be punished': the politics of figural representation amongst the Umayyads / Mika Natif -- Signs of silence: epigraphic erasure and the image of the word / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Conditions of love and conventions of representation in the illustrated manuscript of Varqa and Gulshah / Oya Pancaroğlu -- Part 2: Beyond the Islamic world. Iconomachy in Byzantium / Alicia Walker -- The image in Jewish art / Steven Fine -- Religious imagery and image-making in pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia / Michael Shenkar -- Conspicuous absences: the avoidance and use of images in early South Asian art / Robert Decaroli -- Part 3: Modern and contemporary Islam. The figural image in Islamic devotional art of the Indian Subcontinent / Yousuf Saeed -- The shadow puppet: a South-East Asian Islamic aesthetic / James Bennett -- Enigma and purpose: visual hagiographies of urban Senegal / Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts -- Figures of protest in contemporary Arab and Iranian art / Ross Issa -- Only for my shadow: figuration in contemporary Iranian art / Shiva Balaghi.
Subject Islamic art and symbolism
Symbolism in art
Jewish art and symbolism
Added name(s) Gruber, Christiane J. 1976-
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