Arab Art Arabische Kunst L'art Arabe (cartone) - D'avennes

Autor: D'AVENNES EMILE PRISSE

Editorial: TASCHEN

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ISBN: 9783836519830

Reseña:  This is an essential study of the development of Arabic art portraying its splendor and diversity and a work of supreme 19th century draftsmanship. It is a compendium of 19th century Islamic art and architecture. Emile Prisse dAvennes (1807-1879) a French Orientalist author and artist was one of the greatest pre-20th century Egyptologists. An ardent admirer of the superb skills of Egyptian and Oriental artisans he was enamored of Arabic art. As a youth he dreamed of exploring the Orient and at 19 began travelling to Greece and Palestine. Over the next 40 years he explored Syria Arabia Persia and resided in Egypt and Algeria. Converting to Islam he travelled Egypt disguised as an Arab using the name Edris Effendi. A student of ancient Egyptian and Islamic cultures he later wrote: We shall discuss all the arts all the industries cultivated by Orientals with so much taste brilliance and fantasy. We will present splendid reproductions of the monuments objects of art and luxury which provide evidence of an advanced civilization the influence of which has been felt even in Europe. In 1848/1851 Prisse dAvennes published his Oriental Album in London (Oriental Album. Characters Costumes and Modes of Life the Valley of the Nile). This brilliant collection of 32 chromolithographs illustrating the people and costumes of the Nile Valley was accompanied by a commentary by renowned Orientalist and Egyptologist James Augustus St. John. After again travelling to North Africa Prisse dAvennes returned to France in 1860 bearing the fruits of his journeys-hundreds of folio drawings photographs sketches plans and 400 meters of bas-reliefs. Fascinated by the symmetry complexity and opulence of Egyptian and Arabic art he drew from this vast collection to create compilations of the finest examples of art and architecture which also took into account historical social and religious contexts. In 1877 he published his outstanding survey on Islamic art and architecture Arab Art (LArt arabe dapres les monuments du Kaire 1869-1877) in Paris. This publication reproduces the three atlas volumes containing 200 plates-137 of them magnificent chromolithographs - mainly by Prisse dAvennes. LArt arabe is an indispensable compendium on the development of Arabic art portraying its splendor and diversity and a work of supreme draftsmanship.