Description:
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.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: "'his volume's rich harvest of papers faithfully mirrors the remarkably diverse range of interests from Iberia to Japan which has marked Linda Komaroff's distinguished career both as curator and as research scholar. We move from Mongol art to metalwork and music, from ceramics and carpets to book painting, gift-giving and modern Persian art: infinite riches in a little room.'--Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh