The Myth of the Orient: Architecture and Ornament in the Age of Orientalism 9783034323574, 9783034321075, 9783035109450, 9783034323581, 3034323573

Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient

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The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament 9781474482202

Collects Yasser Tabbaa’s writings on transformations in Islamic architecture and ornament in relation to parallel theolo

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الاستشراق: المفاهيم الغربيه للشرق (Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient)

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الاستشراق: المفاهيم الغربيه للشرق (Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient)

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Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution 9780822382638

In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dyna

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Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution 9780822314714

In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dyna

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The Topkapi scroll: geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture 0892363355

Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic

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Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient 9780755608164, 9781848851061

Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the nineteenth-century European R

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The Mediation of Ornament 9780691252773

How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objects Based on universal motifs, o

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The Function of Ornament 9788496540507

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing th

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