Margaret S Graves

Biographic Data

ID2021953
NAMEMargaret S Graves
GIVEN NAMESMargaret S
FAMILY NAMEGraves
SIGNATUREGRAVES M S
AFFILIATIONSIndiana University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Invisible Hands

    Margaret S GravesBOOKInvisible Hands2026

  • Ceramic Art

    Carl Knappett, Magdalene Odundo et al.BOOKCeramic Art2023

  • Arts of Allusion

    Margaret S GravesBOOKArts of Allusion2018

    The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the deep intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where premodern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged their creations in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, and, perhaps most strik…

  • Conclusion

    Margaret S GravesBOOKArts of Allusion2018

    The conclusion places the art of the object into an expanded field, where it is shown to be contiguous with other visual and verbal artforms including architecture, painting, poetry, and rhetoric. It locates the peak of the allusive object in the pre-Mongol Middle East and speculates about its decline in the later medieval and early modern periods. It also considers the change in meaning that the subjects of the book have undergone as they transi…

  • Occupied Objects

    Margaret S GravesBOOKArts of Allusion2018

    The human form can impart both scale and spatial logic to the objects it adorns. This phenomenon was put to unexpected and sometimes humorous ends by medieval artisans. Focusing on perception, this chapter considers the role of the human figure in architectural allusions on objects from the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iranian plateau. The power of the represented human form is explored first through ceramic stands that make explicit reference…

  • Par la main des femmes

    Margaret S GravesARTICLEThe Journal of North African…2018

    Until recently, those interested in the so-called ‘Berber’ ceramic traditions practiced primarily in the mountain villages of North Africa had a fairly small pool of scholarly resources to draw upo

  • The Monumental Miniature

    Open AccessMargaret S GravesARTICLEArt History2015

  • Columns in Islamic architecture

    Margaret S Graves, Margaret GravesCHAPTER2009

  • Spolia and Islamic buildings

    Margaret S Graves, Margaret GravesCHAPTER2009

  • Arches in Islamic architecture

    Margaret S Graves, Margaret GravesCHAPTER2009

  • Bridges in Islamic architecture

    Margaret S Graves, Margaret GravesCHAPTER2009

  • Balconies in Islamic architecture

    Margaret S Graves, Margaret GravesCHAPTER2009

  • Portals in Islamic Architecture

    Margaret S Graves, Margaret GravesCHAPTER2009

  • Capitals in Islamic architecture

    Margaret S Graves, Margaret GravesCHAPTER2009

  • Ceilings in Islamic architecture

    Margaret S Graves, Margaret GravesCHAPTER2009

  • Windows in Islamic architecture

    Margaret S Graves, Margaret GravesCHAPTER2009

  • Visual Culture as Historical Document

    Margaret S GravesARTICLEBritish Journal of Middle Eastern…2009

    The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh possesses a substantial collection of unpublished nineteenth-century Moroccan ceramics, including 49 pieces from the collection of Sir John Drummond Hay, British Minister Plenipotentiary in Morocco from 1845 to 1886. The Drummond Hay wares are of considerable interest to scholars of history and visual culture alike, as the personal collection of a major figure in nineteenth-century Anglo-Moroccan relat…

  • Ceramic House Models from Medieval Persia

    Margaret S GravesARTICLEIran2008References: 3

    An enigmatic body of Persian ceramic objects from the late twelfth-thirteenth centuries, apparently depicting miniature courtyards with human occupants, are discussed in terms of their relationships with other products of Seljuq visual culture and with vernacular architecture. Textual bodies of evidences regarding the status of domestic celebrations and musical activities are also examined in the quest to understand the iconography of these highl…

  • A Certain Barbaric Originality

    Margaret S GravesARTICLEThe Journal of North African…2007References: 3

    The present paper is one part of a larger research project undertaken on a group of nineteenth-century Moroccan ceramics in the collection of the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The scholarly interest in such wares has to date been biased towards ethnographic studies and formal cataloguing of types. Such approaches have an important place in the study of visual cultures, and indeed a study of forms and decorative types represented within the…

  • Words and Pictures

    Margaret S GravesARTICLEPersica2002