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Knots : art & history : the Berlin carpet collection
Title:
Knots : art & history : the Berlin carpet collection

Knots, art and history
Author:
Beselin, Anna, author.
ISBN:
9788857239125

9783886098149
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 x 22 cm
Abstract:
The Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin boasts one of the oldest collections of Islamic Art in Europe, and an incomparable collection of some 500 knotted carpets from the Islamic world. 'Knots: Art & History' presents a selection of 45 of the best, most unique carpets in that collection, illustrated in stunning detail. Featuring objects made from the 14th through the 17th centuries in Spain, Egypt, Anatolia, the Ottoman Empire, the Caucasus, Persia and India, this publication shows the breadth and depth of the Berlin collection. 0The selected carpets narrate the collection?s own eventful history, from the early 20th-century birth of European research into Islamic Art and Wilhelm von Bode?s foundation of the museum through the Cold War?era division of the collection and its 2001 reunification. This volume presents the Berlin Museum?s reunited carpet collection for the first time in English.00Translation of 'Geknüpfte Kunst: Teppiche des Museums für Islamische Kunst', ISBN 9783938832806, Ed. Minerva (München, 2011).
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references.
Field 805:
npmlib 10902064 NK2808 B47 ysh
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