Title Made for the Eye of One Who Sees Canadian Contributions to the Study of Islamic Art and Archaeology

Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (0 p.) Contents Cover -- MADE FOR THE EYE OF ONE WHO SEES -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Treasures from the Islamic World at the Royal Ontario Museum -- Introduction -- PART ONE READING ARCHITECTURE -- 1 Mshatta's Façade and the Viewer -- 2 Innovative Tomb or Garden Retreat? The Bara Batashewala Mahal in Mughal Delhi -- 3 The Wazir Khan Masjid in Lahore: A Study of the Inscriptions -- 4 The Mosques of Firuz Shah -- PART TWO ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH 5 The Challenge of Interpreting Archaeological Remains in the Light of Written Sources: A Discussion Based on the Work of the Canadian Archaeological Mission in Zabid, Yemen -- 6 The Canadian Archaeological Mission of the Royal Ontario Museum in Yemen -- 7 Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Preliminary Observations on the Production and Use of Ceramic Drainage Pipes in the Islamic Middle East -- 8 A Group of Fourteenth-Century Ceramics from Deir Mar Musa, Syria -- PART THREE MATERIAL AND VISUAL CULTURE 9 Reaching New Heights: The Giraffe in the Material Culture, Ceremonial, and Diplomacy of Fatimid Egypt -- 10 Investigations into Later Persian Ceramics at the Royal Ontario Museum (1987-) -- 11 Stone Lions of Isfahan -- 12 Princes, Wine, and Animated Nature: Tabriz Painting about 1500 -- PART FOUR THE PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION OF ISLAMIC ART IN MODERN TIMES -- 13 Building the Islamic Art Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum: The First Decades -- 14 Henri Matisse's Portrait of a Standing Riffian: Islam, Byzantium, and "Aristocratic Barbarism" -- 15 The Dialogic Exhibition 16 Process Thinking for Islamic Art and Media Art: Performative Abstraction and Collective Transformation -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index Summary Bringing together recent scholarship on Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology being conducted in Canada and by Canadian scholars, Made for the Eye of One Who Sees provides the first survey of the Canadian contributions to this developing field. It covers topics from across the Islamic world dating from the eighth century to the present Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Islamic art. Islamic architecture. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Islamic countries Material culture -- Islamic countries Museums -- Ontario -- Toronto ART / History / General Excavations (Archaeology) Islamic architecture Islamic art Material culture Museums Islamic countries Ontario -- Toronto Form Electronic book Author Baboula, Evanthia ISBN 0228013259 9780228013259

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