Arts of allusion
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126539
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130256
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about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330135240
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  alternate name: Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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  alternate name: Islamic arts
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  alternate name: Arts, Medieval
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  alternate name: Architecture, Medieval
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  alternate name: Architecture, Medieval--Middle East
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  alternate name: Islamic decoration and ornament
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  alternate name: Decoration and ornament, Medieval--Middle East
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  alternate name: Arts, Medieval--Middle East
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  alternate name: Islamic architecture
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  alternate name: Islamic architecture
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  alternate name: Islamic decoration and ornament
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  alternate name: Islamic arts
abstract: Through close studies of ceramics, metalwares and other plastic arts from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, and, most strikingly, architecture.
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310147849
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Arts of the third dimension -- Portable objects and art historical horizons -- Miniature, model, microcosm -- The art of allusion -- The intellect of the hand -- "Making is thinking" -- Architecture, art of process -- Thinking and making in tenth-century Iraq -- The eighth epistle -- The material imagination -- Makers, movements and mutable materials -- The craftsman in society -- Building ornament -- Taking the shapes of images -- Trails of ornament -- Building ornament -- Arcades and cordons sanitaires -- The inlaid surface -- Jaziran synthesis -- Occupied objects -- Lessons from a storeroom -- Seeing-with and the art of the object -- Occupied objects -- Inkwells, architecture, and conditioned vision -- The scribe in the inkwell -- Object as theatre -- Likeness and allusion -- Material metaphors -- The languages of objects -- The poet's craft -- Metal, stone, and smoke -- Mobile monuments -- Radiant monuments -- Metaphor and modality -- The poetics of ornament -- From Nile to Kilga -- The city reinscribed -- Mediterranean miniatures -- Ornament as ekphrasis -- Memory and imagination -- Conclusion : objects in an expanded field.
temporal coverage: 800-1300
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301290746
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