When we walk into a gallery, we have a fairly good idea where the building begins and ends; and inside, while observing a painting, we are equally confident in distinguishing between the painting-proper and its frame and borders. Yet, things are often more complicated. A building defines an exterior space just as much as an interior, and what we perceive to be ornamental and marginal to a given painting may in fact be central to what it represents. In this volume, a simple question is presented: instead of dichotomous separations between inside and outside, or exterior and interior, what other relationships can we think of?
The first book of its kind to grapple with this question, Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture focuses on a wide spectrum of mediums and topics, including painted manuscripts, objects, architectural decoration, architecture and urban planning, and photography. Bringing together scholars with diverse methodologies-who work on a geographical span stretching from India to Spain and Nigeria, and across a temporal spectrum from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century-this original book also poses engaging questions about the boundaries of the field.
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Presents alternative approaches to inside/outside and interior/exterior relationships in Islamic Art and Architecture.
Introduction: Inside/Outside in and of Islamic Art & Architecture:
Toward a Cartographical Approach, Saygin Salgirli (University of British
Columbia-Vancouver, Canada)
1. In and Out of a Local Idiom: The Story of a Siedlung in Yenimahalle,
Ankara, Kivanc Kilinc (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
2. Looking beyond the Lens Veil: Capturing the Haram (1840- 1890), Jorge
Correia (University of Minho, Portugal)
3. Under-Writing Beirut-Mathaf, Whose Ghosts Must be Summoned, Jeff OBrien
(University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada)
4. For Close Observation: Imagery in the Architecture of Qajar Iran,
Friederike Voigt (National Museums of Scotland, UK)
5. Potential Worlds: Representation, Mimesis and the Demiurgic Artist in
Late Timurid Painting (ca. 1470-1500), Lamia Balafrej (UCLA, USA)
6. A Collage of Projections: Exploring an Awadhi Miniature Paintings
Pictorial Space Through 3D Modelling, Hussein Keshani (University of British
Columbia-Okanagan, Canada)
7. Private and Public in Vernacular Space: The Abandoned Nubian Villages of
Bigge, Bernadeta Schäfer and Armgard Goo-Grauer (Berlin Institute of
Technology, Germany)
8. Singing the Song of Separation: The Nath Vairagi in Mughal Paintings,
Anjali Duhan Gulia (Maharshi Dayanand University, India)
9. The Ubiquitous Knot: Traces of Hercules in an Unknown Candleholder from
the Museum of Islamic Arts in Bursa, Paschalis Androudis & Georgios Orfanidis
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Index
Saygin Salgirli is Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, University of British Columbia, Canada.
