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Ibrahim El-Salahi
Ibrahim El Salahi
其他書名
A Visionary Modernist
出版Museum for African Art, 2012
ISBN29038244369782903824433
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4V8zMwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The necropolis of Shah-e Zende at Samarkand represents a summit in the art of ceramic wall coverings in the Islamic world. Few studies have focused on the funerary ensemble of the Shah-e Zende and this is the first to describe these monuments in all the details of their decoration and its techniques and motifs, as well as the different types of ceramics used and their composition. Perched on a steep cliff overlooking the ancient city of Samarkand, today the ghost town of Afrasiyab, the necropolis remains largely unknown to art historians and certainly to the general public. In the vast territory of Islam, the Shah-e Zende complex reveals the finest hour of facade-tile ceramics. Nowhere else was such a wide array of techniques of fabrication developed in the space of one century. In the heart of one of these mausolea is a jewel of Islamix ceramics: the cenotaph of the venerated Qutham Ibn Abbas. 0Exhibition: Travelling exhibition, spring 2012 - winter 2014.