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The Mediation of Ornament (A W Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)

The Mediation of Ornament (A W Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780691040998
  • ISBN: 0691040990
  • Edition: 1st
  • Publication Date: 1992
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press

AUTHOR

Oleg Grabar

SUMMARY

In this richly illustrated book, Oleg Grabar shares a veteran art historian's love for the sheer sensuality of ornamentation. Grabar analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects and uses this art to show how ornament in general enables a direct, immediate encounter between viewers and art objects from any culture and time period.Oleg Grabar is the author of 'The Mediation of Ornament (A W Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)', published 1992 under ISBN 9780691040998 and ISBN 0691040990.

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