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Book SynopsisWhen we walk into a gallery, we have a fairly good idea where the building begins and ends; and inside, while observing a painting, we are equally confident in distinguishing between the painting-proper and its frame and borders. Yet, things are often more complicated. A building defines an exterior space just as much as an interior, and what we perceive to be ornamental and marginal to a given painting may in fact be central to what it represents. In this volume, a simple question is presented: instead of dichotomous separations between inside and outside, or exterior and interior, what other relationships can we think of?The first book of its kind to grapple with this question,
Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture focuses on a wide spectrum of mediums and topics, including painted manuscripts, objects, architectural decoration, architecture and urban planning, and photography. Bringing together scholars with diverse methodologieswho work on a geographical span stretchin
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Inside/Outside in and of Islamic Art & Architecture: Toward a Cartographical Approach,
Saygin Salgirli (University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada) 1. In and Out of a Local Idiom: The Story of a Siedlung in Yenimahalle, Ankara,
Kivanc Kilinc (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) 2. Looking beyond the Lens’ Veil: Capturing the Haram (1840- 1890),
Jorge Correia (University of Minho, Portugal) 3. Under-Writing Beirut-Mathaf, Whose Ghosts Must be Summoned,
Jeff O’Brien (University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada) 4. For Close Observation: Imagery in the Architecture of Qajar Iran,
Friederike Voigt (National Museums of Scotland, UK) 5. Potential Worlds: Representation, Mimesis and the Demiurgic Artist in Late Timurid Painting (ca. 1470-1500),
Lamia Balafrej (UCLA, USA) 6. A Collage of Projections: Exploring an Awadhi Miniature Painting’s Pictorial Space Through 3D Modelling,
Hussein Keshani (University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Canada) 7. Private and Public in Vernacular Space: The Abandoned Nubian Villages of Bigge,
Bernadeta Schäfer and Armgard Goo-Grauer (Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany) 8. Singing the Song of Separation: The Nath Vairagi in Mughal Paintings,
Anjali Duhan Gulia (Maharshi Dayanand University, India) 9. The Ubiquitous Knot: Traces of Hercules in an Unknown Candleholder from the Museum of Islamic Arts in Bursa,
Paschalis Androudis & Georgios Orfanidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Index
