Muqarnas, Volume 8

K. A. C. Creswell and His Legacy
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-90-04-25928-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 138 Seiten, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 267 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Muqarnas

Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grabar, Oleg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Oleg Grabar, K. A. C. Creswell and His Work

Julian Raby, Reviewing the Reviewers

J.W. Allan, New Additions to the New Edition

Robert Hillenbrand, Creswell and Contemporary Central European Scholarschip

Eric Fernie, The History of Medieval Architecture from Carolingian to Romanesque: Criteria and Definitions from 1925 to the Present Day

Cyril Mango, Approaches to Byzantine Architecture

J.M. Rogers, Architectural History as Literature: Creswell’s Reading and Methods

Jonathan M. Bloom, Creswell and the Origins of the Minaret

John Warren, Creswell’s Use of the Theory of Dating by the Acuteness of the Pointed Arches in Early Muslim Architecture

Sheila S. Blair, Surveyor versus Epigrapher

Alastair Northedge, Creswell, Herzfeld, and Samarra

G.R.D. King, Creswell’s Appreciation of Arabian Architecture

Mark Horton, Primitive Islam and Architecture in East Africa

Gloria Karnouk, The Creswell Library: A Legacy

Teresa Fitzherbert, The Creswell Photographic Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

R.W. Hamilton, Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, 1879–1974

Note:

R.D. McChesney, Postscript to “Four Sources on Shah 'Abbas’s Building of Isfahan”

Über Autor(innen)

Oleg Grabar (November 3, 1929 – January 8, 2011) was Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University until his retirement and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He published more then 30 books and countless articles on a range of subjects. Among his best-known works are: Formation of Islamic Art, Illustrations of the Maqamat, The Alhambra, Great Mosque of Isfahan, Mediation of Ornament, Mostly Miniatures, Shape of the Holy, Dome of the Rock, Penser l'art Islamique, and Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th century. Grabar received many honors during his lifetime, including the Charles Lang Freer Medal in 2001 and, in 2010, the Chairman's Award at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture ceremony in Doha. He was the founding editor of Muqarnas.