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Arts of the City Victorious (2007)

Arts of the City Victorious (2007)

Jonathan M. Bloom

Year: 2007
Authors: Jonathan M. Bloom
Pages: 264
Print type: BOOK

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"Fatimid art and architecture has always been somewhat anomalous in the history of islamic art because of the direction it grew (west to east), subject matter (figural at a time when geometry and the arabesque were developing elsewhere), and unusually rich and precise documentation in royal and popular accounts. Whereas earlier studies treated the two and a half centuries of Fatimid art and architecture as a single category, this book is the first to show how they grew and evolved over time."--BOOK JACKET.