Sheila S Blair
Biographic Data
| ID | 712181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila S Blair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila S |
| FAMILY NAME | Blair |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIR S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5857-4408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 130 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 98 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 32 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Iranian Art from the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic
This group of thirteen chapters in honour of Linda Komaroff, Curator of Islamic Art and Department Head, Art of the Middle East at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, serves as an introduction to various aspects of Iranian art over the past two millennia. The introduction provides insights into Komaroff’s long career as a curator and teacher and concludes with a list of her writings and exhibitions. The following chapters present explorations o…
A Mongol Historian Looks at Art
This chapter presents the text, a translation, and a lengthy analysis of a passage from a chronicle of the Mongol period describing the new capital founded by the Ilkhanids at Sultaniyya in northwest Iran and the major monument there, the tomb of the sultan Uljaytu. The author, a court historian as well as a member of the most famous family of potters in Iran, used language that is often opaque and flowery, but it is possible to glean insights in…
CHAPTER 1 A Mongol Historian Looks at Art
Iranian Art from the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic
Linda Komaroff, long-time curator of the Art of the Middle East at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), has pioneered in the study and exhibition of Islamic art to include contemporary works. Her interests have long focused on the arts of Iran. With this volume her friends and colleagues celebrate her broad scope with essays exploring many new areas. These 13 essays examine different media, including architecture, manuscripts, portable a…
China
China
China
Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615520);What is Second Language Acquisition?In recent years there has been a notable increase in the number of publications discussing and debating issues surrounding SLA. In The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition David Block critically examines the key assumptions behind this research. He unpacks and analyses the way the key components of SLA are commonly understood, asking what is meant by the t…
Tabriz
The historian David Morgan acknowledged history's debt to art history, showing it to be one not just of conquest but also of culture. There are two ways to approach this investigation into the artistic evidence for the cosmopolitan nature of Tabriz under the Mongols from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth century. It first examines what art can tell us about the varied sources available in this international entrepot, and second looks at what t…
Closing the social class achievement gap for first-generation students in undergraduate biology
Many students start college intending to pursue a career in the biosciences, but too many abandon this goal because they struggle in introductory biology. Interventions have been developed to close achievement gaps for underrepresented minority students and women, but no prior research has attempted to close the gap for first-generation students, a population that accounts for nearly a fifth of college students. We report a values affirmation int…
Photography in the Near East
Boullata, Kamal
Moshiri, Farhad
Transcribing God's Word
For Muslims the Qur'anic text is immutable, yet written versions vary enormously in materials, format and aspect. This article presents a broad overview of the various forms Qur'an codices have assumed during the first millennium of Islamic history, treating these manuscripts as both physical objects and cultural signifiers. It takes a functional approach, relating physical changes such as differing materials and format to social and historical o…
A Brief Biography Of Abu Zayd
Abu Zayd Kashani is the most famous potter of medieval Iran: he worked in the two most expensive overglaze techniques, enamel and luster, and he left behind the greatest number of signed works. The work by Abu Zayd, newly brought to light and acquired by the David Collection in Copenhagen, is a medium-sized bowl with straight, flaring sides joined to a high foot ring at a sharp angle. Abu Zayd also collaborated on the larger molded revetments and…
A Brief Biography of Abu Zayd
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
A Brief Biography of Abu Zayd
Ivories and Inscriptions from Islamic Spain
Precious boxes of finely carved ivory are some of the fanciest and best-known works of early Islamic art from Spain. Two of the most famous examples are the so-called al-Mugirah pyxis, a small cylindrical box in the Louvre (fig. 1), and the so-called Pamplona casket, a large rectangular box with pitched lid preserved in the Museo de Navarra at Pamplona (fig. 2). These two pieces can be taken to epitomize a group of 29 ivories produced under Musli…
Staircase
Palestine
Serbia
Abu’l-Qasim Jamal al-Din ‛Abdallah
Stucco and plasterwork
Caricature
Indonesia
Closing the social class achievement gap for first-generation students in undergraduate biology
Many students start college intending to pursue a career in the biosciences, but too many abandon this goal because they struggle in introductory biology. Interventions have been developed to close achievement gaps for underrepresented minority students and women, but no prior research has attempted to close the gap for first-generation students, a population that accounts for nearly a fifth of college students. We report a values affirmation int…
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire
1. Introduction 2. Consumption and use 3. Acquisition and production 4. Clothing and colour 5. Cultural transmission 6. Conclusion
"The Mongol Capital of Sulṭāniyya, "The Imperial
The Madrasa at Zuzan
The Coins of the Later Ilkhanids
Ghizin Khin was undoubtedly the most brilliant of the Ilkhanid rulers of Persia: not only a commander and statesman, he was also a linguist, architect and bibliophile. One of his most lasting contributions was the reorganization of Iran's financial system. Upon his accession to the throne, the economy was in total chaos: his predecessor Gaykhatti's stop-gap issue of paper money to fill an empty treasury had been a fiasco 2), and the civil wars am…
Ilkhanid Architecture and Society
Rashid al-Din (1247-1318 apr. J.-C.), vizir des souverains Ilkhanides Ghazan et Oljeytu. Protecteur des arts et des lettres, grand bâtisseur. A Tabriz, il se fit construire un tombeau magnifique, le Rab-i Rashidi, dont il ne reste malheureusement presque rien. Mais une reconstitution est possible grâce a l'acte de fondation des waqfs, conserve a Tabriz. C'est ce que l'A. tente de faire
Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615520);What is Second Language Acquisition?In recent years there has been a notable increase in the number of publications discussing and debating issues surrounding SLA. In The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition David Block critically examines the key assumptions behind this research. He unpacks and analyses the way the key components of SLA are commonly understood, asking what is meant by the t…
Color and Gold
scripts. They have spent less time studying the papers used to support and surround the flowing calligraphy, though these too are often exquisitely tinted and decorated to contribute to this dazzling display. This somewhat lopsided approach reflects the interests of earlier researchers, who preferred paintings to paper. Traditionally, published reproductions show just the miniature or a detail of the illumination and crop the surrounding margins …
Ivories and Inscriptions from Islamic Spain
Precious boxes of finely carved ivory are some of the fanciest and best-known works of early Islamic art from Spain. Two of the most famous examples are the so-called al-Mugirah pyxis, a small cylindrical box in the Louvre (fig. 1), and the so-called Pamplona casket, a large rectangular box with pitched lid preserved in the Museo de Navarra at Pamplona (fig. 2). These two pieces can be taken to epitomize a group of 29 ivories produced under Musli…
Timurid Signs of Sovereignty
As rulers of Iran and Central Asia in the late 14th and 15 th centuries, the Timu ids drew upon diverse sources to establish their authority and legitimacy. They considered themselves heirs to the Chinghizid line, but they were also rulers of a Muslim polity, and several scholars, notably Manz (1988), Woods (1990) and Subtelny (1994; 1995), have addressed the question of how Timur and his descendants balanced Turco-Mongo lian and Islamic traditio…
Artists and patronage in late fourteenth-century Iran in the light of two catalogues of Islamic metalwork
Islamic metalwork has in recent years been the subject of several important new publications. James W. Allan has written a lavishly illustrated guide to a recently acquired private collection whose pieces attest to the high quality of objects available to the discriminating collector. The 27 pieces span the variety of wares produced in the medieval Islamic world: bowls, ewers, candlesticks, inkwells, incense burners, and other objects produced in…
The Octagonal Pavilion at Natanz
The Coins of the Later Ilkhanids
Ghizin Khin was undoubtedly the most brilliant of the Ilkhanid rulers of Persia: not only a commander and statesman, he was also a linguist, architect and bibliophile. One of his most lasting contributions was the reorganization of Iran's financial system. Upon his accession to the throne, the economy was in total chaos: his predecessor Gaykhatti's stop-gap issue of paper money to fill an empty treasury had been a fiasco 2), and the civil wars am…
The Coins of the Later Ilkhanids
Ilkhanid Architecture and Society
Rashid al-Din (1247-1318 apr. J.-C.), vizir des souverains Ilkhanides Ghazan et Oljeytu. Protecteur des arts et des lettres, grand bâtisseur. A Tabriz, il se fit construire un tombeau magnifique, le Rab-i Rashidi, dont il ne reste malheureusement presque rien. Mais une reconstitution est possible grâce a l'acte de fondation des waqfs, conserve a Tabriz. C'est ce que l'A. tente de faire
The Madrasa at Zuzan
Artists and patronage in late fourteenth-century Iran in the light of two catalogues of Islamic metalwork
Islamic metalwork has in recent years been the subject of several important new publications. James W. Allan has written a lavishly illustrated guide to a recently acquired private collection whose pieces attest to the high quality of objects available to the discriminating collector. The 27 pieces span the variety of wares produced in the medieval Islamic world: bowls, ewers, candlesticks, inkwells, incense burners, and other objects produced in…
"The Mongol Capital of Sulṭāniyya, "The Imperial
Sufi Saints and Shrine Architecture in the Early Fourteenth Century
Sufi Saints and Shrine Architecture in the Early Fourteenth Century
Surveyor Versus Epigrapher
Surveyor versus Epigrapher
The Development of the Illustrated Book in Iran
century onward deserves discussion in a volume dedicated to Oleg Grabar, for he is a pioneer who broadened the field of Persian painting from the identification of individual paintings and hands to the study of the illustrated book as the work of art. By examining in chronological order the manuscripts that can be securely dated and attributed to metropolitan centers of the I1khanid realm, it becomes clear how the patronage, size, and function of…
The Development of the Illustrated Book in Iran
The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art
The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800
Timurid Signs of Sovereignty
As rulers of Iran and Central Asia in the late 14th and 15 th centuries, the Timu ids drew upon diverse sources to establish their authority and legitimacy. They considered themselves heirs to the Chinghizid line, but they were also rulers of a Muslim polity, and several scholars, notably Manz (1988), Woods (1990) and Subtelny (1994; 1995), have addressed the question of how Timur and his descendants balanced Turco-Mongo lian and Islamic traditio…
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire
1. Introduction 2. Consumption and use 3. Acquisition and production 4. Clothing and colour 5. Cultural transmission 6. Conclusion
Color and Gold
Color and Gold
scripts. They have spent less time studying the papers used to support and surround the flowing calligraphy, though these too are often exquisitely tinted and decorated to contribute to this dazzling display. This somewhat lopsided approach reflects the interests of earlier researchers, who preferred paintings to paper. Traditionally, published reproductions show just the miniature or a detail of the illumination and crop the surrounding margins …
Staircase
Palestine
Serbia
Abu’l-Qasim Jamal al-Din ‛Abdallah
Stucco and plasterwork
Caricature
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