| ISBN |
0300256884 (hardcover) |
| 9780300256888 (hardcover) |
| Meeting Name |
Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture (8th : 2019 : VCUQatar) |
| Title |
The seas and the mobility of Islamic art / edited by Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, and Jochen Sokoly |
| Publisher |
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2021 |
| Physical desc. |
335 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm. |
| Note |
'In association with Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts in Qatar'--t.p. |
| CB illustrations: p. 17, fig. 1.4 (In 07A.12); p. 81, fig. 4.7 (T 560.79), p. 91, fig. 5.2 (In 07A.7); p. 93, fig. 5.4 (In 58.2). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The seas and the mobility of Islamic art: an introduction / Radha Dalal, Jochen Sokoly, and Sean Roberts -- Part 1: The materials of mobility. Collapsing geography and orientalizing pigment in a fourteenth-century chromosphere: Italian painting and Ilkhanid ceramics / Heather Coffey -- Reuse and alteration: the Viking afterlives of Samanid silver / Holley Ledbetter -- Emeralds in India: New World gems and the Mughal court / Marika Sardar -- Tracing trade: the evolution of Mughal glass in the context of the M.I.A. Spittoon / Tara Desjardins -- Chinese textiles in Mamluk tombs: maritime trade and cultural exchange in the fourteenth century / Eiren L. Shea -- Part 2: Port cities and centers of production. A port of the sea, emporium of the land, and place of manufacture: Basra as a center of mobility and innovation in ceramics in the Abbasid period / Jessica Hallett -- Portal patinas: value and violence in carved doors on the Swahili coast / Jenny Peruski -- 'All men will be sailors then, until the sea shall free them': carved souvenirs of mother-of-pear from Bethlehem / Avinoam Shalem -- From Surat to Jidda: picturing the western Indian Ocean port city / Nancy Um. |
| Meeting |
Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 58 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 560 |
| Islamic art -- Congresses |
| Islamic art -- Themes, motives |
| Port cities -- Middle East -- History |
| Port cities -- Indian Ocean -- History |
| Added name(s) |
Dalal, Radha |
| Roberts, Sean E. |
| Sokoly, Jochen A. (Jochen Artur) |
