Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 43, Spring 2003

Islamic Arts

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    Editorial: What Should One Know about Islamic Art
    Oleg Grabar

    Micrographia: Toward A Visual Logic of Persianate Painting
    David J. Roxburgh

    Signs in the Horizons: Concepts of Image and Boundary in a Medieval Persian Cosmography
    Oya Pancaroglu

    Islam, Art, and Architecture in the Americas: Some Considerations of Colonial Latin America
    Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

    Mudéjar Revisited: A Prolegomena to the Reconstruction of Perception, Devotion and Experience at the Mudéjar Convent of Clarisas, Tordesillas, Spain (14th Century A.D.)
    Cynthia Robinson

    The Dialogic Dimension in Umayyad Art
    Nasser Rabbat

    Pillars, Palimpsests, and Princely Practices: Translating the Past in Sultanate Delhi
    Finbarr B. Flood

    Crossing Lines: Architecture in Early Islamic South Asia
    Michael W. Meister

    Transformation of Words to Images: Portraits of Ottoman Courtiers in the Diwans of Bâkî and Nâdirî
    Zeren Tanindi

    Interpreting the Ghazals of Hafiz
    Priscilla Soucek

    Reexploring Islamic Art: Modern and Contemporary Creation in the Arab World and Its Relation to the Artistic Past
    Silvia Naef

    Beyond Islamic Roots--Beyond Modernism
    Fereshteh Daftari

    On Wings of Diesel: Spiritual Space and Religious Imagination in Pakistani Truck Decoration
    Jamal J. Elias

    Abject to Object: Colonialism Preserved Through the Imagery of Muharram
    Rebecca M. Brown

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Francesco Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. He is also Chair of the University Seminar on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Columbia University, and Senior Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University.