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Informationen zum Autor Hiroshi Unno : Born in Tokyo, Japan, a writer specialized in art, film, music, city theory and novel. Klappentext Middle Eastern literature and poetry, including Arabian Nights and Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, has captured the imaginations of European people with its mysterious atmosphere and tales of exotic lands. From the 18th to the early 20th century, various European editions of these stories were published that included imaginative illustrations by notable European illustrators such as Kai Nielsen, Edmund Durac and others. (mostly Japanese text, some English as supplementary) This book is a visual art collection of the world featured in such European illustrations and introduces the ancient Islamic manuscripts and art on which the illustrations are based. Islamic book design, ornaments and costumes of the time are also featured, giving readers a broad sense of the Islamic culture that has so inspired European artists. This collection offers a unique introduction to the beauty of Islamic art and culture and is sure to become a treasured book for Islamic art lovers, too. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Gorgeous Fairytale World of A Thousand and One Nights ...029 Chapter 1 Art of Arabian Nights & Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam...035 Various Editions of A Thousand and One Nights...036 Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Aubrey Beardsley & John Austen, William Andrew Pogany, Leon Carre, Virginia Frances Sterrett, Thomas Mackenzie, Jiri Trnka, Rene Bull, Maxfield Parrish, Ronald Balfour, Edmund Dulac, Rene Bull, William Morris Chapter 2 Fashion & Book Design...187 Ballet Russes and Sergei Diaghilev...188 George Barbier, Leon Bakst, Gosta Adrian-Nilsson Paul Poiret's Thousand and Second Night Party...210 Erte, Georges Lepape, Umberto Brunelleschi, Gerda Wegener Oriental Architecture and Book Design...234 Chapter 3 Orientalism Taken Further, Various Oriental Images...259 Romantic Orientalism...260 China, India, Southeast Asia Orientalism Taken Further...264 Oriental Beauties in Folktakes...284 Index...293...
