{"product_id":"colour-light-and-wonder-in-islamic-art-9780863560606","title":"Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has\u003cbr\u003ehistorically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines\u003cbr\u003ethe language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its\u003cbr\u003eaesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of\u003cbr\u003einterpreting colour. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, represents\u003cbr\u003eone of the finest examples of colour-use on a grand scale. Here, Trevathan\u003cbr\u003eexamines the philosophical and mystical traditions that formed the mosque's\u003cbr\u003ebackdrop. He shows how careful combinations of colour and design proportions in\u003cbr\u003eIslamic patterns express knowledge beyond that experienced in the corporeal\u003cbr\u003eworld, offering another language with which to know and experience God. Colour\u003cbr\u003ethus becomes a spiritual language, calling for a re-consideration of how we\u003cbr\u003eread Islamic aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIdries Trevathan\u003c\/b\u003e is a curator and\u003cbr\u003econservator with close to twenty years' experience working with Islamic art\u003cbr\u003ecollections in the Muslim world and beyond. Trevathan works regularly on\u003cbr\u003econservation projects and has conducted technical and aesthetic colour studies\u003cbr\u003eon a range of Islamic art, including the nineteenth-century Malay Qur'an\u003cbr\u003emanuscripts, eighteenth- to nineteenth-century Damascene reception rooms and sixteenth-century\u003cbr\u003eOttoman porticoes in the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Trevathan trained as an art\u003cbr\u003econservator at the City \u0026amp; Guilds of London Art School and earned a PhD in\u003cbr\u003ecolour in Islamic art from the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, \u003cbr\u003eLondon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Saqi Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914835693842,"sku":"9780863560606","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_39ad1297-0fe8-4c23-95ba-b82f38f687da.jpg?v=1738820641","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/colour-light-and-wonder-in-islamic-art-9780863560606","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}