Arabic Designs; Author: Mirow, Gregory; Paperback

Author: Mirow, Gregory
Dover Pictorial Archives; Paperback; Illustrations
32 pages
Published: May 2002
Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486421716
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Because they are forbidden by their religion to reproduce the human figure -- except when depicting gods, goddesses, and other mythical figures -- Islamic artists have focused their talentson creating elaborate representations of animals, flowers, geometric patterns, and linear designs. Over the centuries, these designs have acquired an incomparable elegance. This collection of 125 motifs, adapted by Gregory Mirow from authentic sources, documents that elegance in florals from ancient Persian fabrics, star-shaped thirteenth-century tiles from Iran, a detail from a painting of Meccaand Medina (18th-19th century A.D.), floral motifs from a seventeenth-century Indo-Persian velvet panel, a dancing figure representing the constellation Andromeda, and much more. Graphic artists and d