Iranian Art From the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic - Essays in Honour of Linda Komaroff

13 essays examine different media, including architecture, manuscripts, portable arts and textiles, as well as the contemporary arts of painting, photography, printmaking and video, from the early Islamic period to the present.

About the author

Sheila S. Blair is the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art and the Boston College and Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. Jonathan M. Bloom is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of fifteen books and hundreds of articles on all aspects of Islamic art and architecture, including the art of the Fatimid dynasty, and the history of paper. He and his wife and colleague Sheila Blair edited the prize-winning 3-volume Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture (2009) and organize the Hamad bin Khalifa Biennial Symposia on Islamic Art and Culture. Sandra Williams, is Assistant Curator, Art of the Middle East, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and specializes in the arts of the Persianate world.

Product details

• Authors: Sheila S Bloom Blair, Sheila S. Blair Jonathan M. Bloom Sandra Williams
• Assisted by: Sheila S Blair (Editor), Jonathan M Bloom (Editor), Sandra Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781399506021
• ISBN: 978-1-399-50602-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture