| ISBN |
1892850117 (pbk.) |
| 9781892850119 (pbk.) |
| Author |
Blair, Sheila |
| Title |
Cosmophilia : Islamic art from the David Collection, Copenhagen / [by] Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ; with essays by Kjeld von Folsach, Nancy Netzer and Claude Cernuschi |
| Publisher |
Chestnut Hill, MA : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006 |
| Physical desc. |
216 p. ; col. ill. ; 23 x 31 cm. |
| Note |
Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Sept. 1-Dec. 31, 2006, and at the Alfred and David Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Feb. 1-May 20, 2007. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215). |
| Contents |
Ornament and Islamic art / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom -- The David Collection: the museum's history, character, and various reflections on the reinstallation of the Islamic collection / Kjeld von Folsach -- Insular and Islamic cosmophilic responses to the classical past / Nancy Netzer -- Adolf Loos, Alois Riegl, and the debate on ornament in fin-de-siècle Vienna / Claude Cernuschi -- Works in the exhibition: figures; writing; geometry; vegetation and the Arabesque; hybrids. |
| Corporate name |
C. L. Davids fond og samling -- Exhibitions |
| McMullen Museum of Art -- Exhibitions |
| David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Islamic art -- Exhibitions |
| Art -- Denmark -- Copenhagen -- Exhibitions |
| Islamic art and symbolism |
| Added name(s) |
Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) |
| Folsach, Kjeld von |
| Netzer, Nancy |
| Cernuschi, Claude 1961- |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
C. L. Davids fond og samling |
| McMullen Museum of Art |
