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Central Asian Art (Temporis series) by Vladimir Lukonin
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781780428949
Publication Date: 2012-06-30
The strict prohibition on the representation of the human form has channeled artistic creation into architecture and architectural decoration. This book is a magical tour through Central Asia - Khirgizia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenia, and Uzbekistan - a cradle of Ancient civilizations and are pository of the Oriental arts inspired by Buddhism and Islam. There are magnificent, full-colour photographs of the abandoned cities of Mervand Urgench, Khiva, the capital of the Kharezm, with its mausoleum of Sheikh Seid Allahuddin,and the Golden Road to Samarkand, the Blue City, a center of civilization for 2,500 years.
The Formation of Islamic Art by Oleg Grabar
Call Number: N6260 .G69
ISBN: 0300015054
Publication Date: 1973-06-01
The history and works of early Islamic art.
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Call Number: PN6747 .S245 P4713 2003
ISBN: 9780375714573
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.
Revealing the Holy Land: the Photographic exploration of Palestine by Kathleen S. Howe; Nitza Rosovsky
Call Number: Oversize TR113 .I75 H68 1997
ISBN: 9780899510941
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
Throughout the last half of the nineteenth century, the Holy Land drew legions of photographers: amateurs recording a stop on the Grand Tour, academics pursuing archeological theories, military surveyors - all trying to capture the truthfulness of a land that had enormous spiritual, emotional, and political connotations for most of the Western world. What they saw, and how they saw it, are the themes of Kathleen Stewart Howe's essay and this rare and remarkable collection of photographs.

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