Islamic Art - Softcover

Norbert Wolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 382285669X ISBN 13: 9783822856697

Publisher: TASCHEN Gmbh, 2009

Synopsis

Islamic Art:

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Review:

"Hagedorn and Wolf are German scholars specializing in art history and criticism. They aim to illustrate the beauty and diversity of Islamic art through the centuries and across the vast geography of the Islamic world. This is a daunting task, but they succeed by offering representative masterpieces in painting, calligraphy, ceramics, tapestry and carpets from some of the world's great museums and collections, such as The British Library in London and Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul ... Hagedorn and Wolf open the door to one of the most beautiful aspects of Islamic civilization."

About the Author:

Norbert Wolf gratuated in art history, linguistics and medieval studies at the universities of Regensburg and Munich. He took his doctorate in art history in 1983. In 1992 he wrote his professorial thesis in Munich on carved 14th-century retables. Subsequently he held visiting professorships in Marburg, Frankfurt a.M., Leipzig, Dusseldorf, Nuremberg-Erlangen, and Innsbruck. He has written extensively on art history, including the many titles for TASCHEN, such as Diego Velazquez, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Caspar David Friedrich, Expressionism, Romanesque, Landscape Painting. Annette Hagedorn studied the history of oriental art, German literature, and art history at the universities of Bonn and Mainz. She has held part-time teaching posts at the universities of Bonn, Mainz and Utrecht. Since 2000 she has been co-editor, responsible for art history and archaeology, of the journal "Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft".

About this edition

• Publisher: TASCHEN Gmbh
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 382285669X
• ISBN 13: 9783822856697
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Norbert Wolf