Arts of Diplomacy : Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection
by Pellizzi, FrancescoFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-06-01
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary
"Res" is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. "Res" also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the history and theory of the arts. "Res" appears twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The journal is edited by Francesco Pellizzi. More information about Res is available at www.res-journal.org.
Table of Contents
| Editorial: What Should One Know about Islamic Art | |
| Micrographia: Toward A Visual Logic of Persianate Painting | |
| Signs in the Horizons: Concepts of Image and Boundary in a Medieval Persian Cosmography | |
| Islam, Art, and Architecture in the Americas: Some Considerations of Colonial Latin America | |
| Revisited: A Prolegomena to the Reconstruction of Perception, Devotion and Experience at the Mudeacute;jar Convent of Clarisas, Tordesillas, Spain (14th Century A.D.) | |
| The Dialogic Dimension in Umayyad Art | |
| Pillars, Palimpsests, and Princely Practices: Translating the Past in Sultanate Delhi | |
| Crossing Lines: Architecture in Early Islamic South Asia | |
| Transformation of Words to Images: Portraits of Ottoman Courtiers in the Diwans of BGke and NGdire | |
| Interpreting the Ghazals of Hafiz Priscilla Soucek Reexploring Islamic Art: Modern and Contemporary Creation in the Arab World and Its Relation to the Artistic Past Silvia Naef Beyond Islamic Roots--Beyond Modernism | |
| On Wings of Diesel: Spiritual Space and Religious Imagination in Pakistani Truck Decoration | |
| Abject to Object: Colonialism Preserved Through the Imagery of Muharram | |
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