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Tim Stanley, with Mariam Rosser-Owen and Stephe Vernoit.
Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Middle East.
Published London: V&A Publications, 2004.
ISBN 1851774297;
ISBN-13: 9781851774296.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printed in Hong Kong.
Size: 216x270x10mm.
Page count: 144pp, illustrated throughout, predominantly in colour.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: covers a little grubby with some wear to the edges and corners, spine undamaged.


This item £9.50
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £19.99]
Weight without packaging: 655g.

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Originally published to mark the opening of the V&A's Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art in 2006, and the touring exhibition which preceded it. Chronological range from early times to the twentieth century.

Contents A sense of geography; What is Islamic art?; The issue of images; The poetic environment; Patrons & makers; Interaction.

[BML/LF]
[PC1]

See also | Art history | Islam | Museums & collections | V&A Publications |

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