Synopses & Reviews
Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods.
Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the history and theory of the arts.
Res appears twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The journal is edited by Francesco Pellizzi. More information about Res is available at www.res-journal.org.
Synopsis
Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
About the Author
Francesco Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Table of Contents
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