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Title Cosmophilia : Islamic art from the David Collection, Copenhagen / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom
with essays by Kjeld von Folsach, Nancy Netzer, and Claude Cernuschi.
Contributors Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.)
Folsach, Kjeld von
Netzer, Nancy
Cernuschi, Claude, 1961-
C. L. Davids fond og samling
McMullen Museum of Art
Publisher Chestnut Hill, MA : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
[Chicago] : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Creation Date ©2006
Notes Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Sept. 1-Dec. 31, 2006, and at the Alfred and David Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Feb. 1-May 20, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215).
Content Ornament and Islamic art / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom -- David collection : the museum's history, character, adn various reflections on the reinstallation of the Islamic collection / Kjeld von Folsach -- Insular and Islamic cosmophilic responses to the classical past / Nancy Netzer -- Adolf Loos, Alois Riegl, and the debate on ornament in fin-de-siecle Vienna / Claude Cernuschi -- Works in the exhibition -- Figures -- Writing -- Geometry -- Vegetation and the arabesque -- Hybrids.
Extent 216 pages : color illustrations
23 x 31 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990040750970205171

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