Carol Bier
Biographic Data
| ID | 998589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Bier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Bier |
| SIGNATURE | BIER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Textile Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-0771-237X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pattern-Making and Textile Technologies across Asia
To consider textiles along the trade routes that traverse Asia is to consider materials, technologies, images and ideas: fibres and filaments, dyestuffs, and the technologies of felt-making, weaving, embroidery, carpet-weaving and block-printing. Pattern-making is affected by all of these factors. And the trajectories of designs, repeated to form patterns, bring us to confront changes in meaning over time and space, relating textiles to the histo…
Sasanian Textiles
Despite the vagaries of preservation, fragments of Sasanian textiles have survived at a number of sites on the periphery of the Sasanian Empire, particularly in western China, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. These display complex iconography better illustrated in many cases on Sasanian rock reliefs, particularly at Taq-e Bustan, and on silver vessels. This chapter discusses the weaving techniques used to produce Sasanian textiles, as well as thei…
Part One: The “Elements” of Sciences and Crafts
Among the sciences and crafts of eastern Islamic lands, geometry emerges as a subject that transcends disciplinary boundaries with which we are familiar today. The Elements and Optics of Euclid (ca. 300 BCE), the Conies of Appollonios (third century BCE), and the Mechanics of Heron (first century CE) and Pappus of Alexandria (fourth century CE), highlight the prominence of geometry in the sciences. Apart from the textual tradition and the written…
Art and Mithāl: Reading Geometry as Visual Commentary
This article seeks to develop an interpretation of ornament as geometric pattern that embodies metaphysical intent in Iranian monuments of the fifth/eleventh century. The proposed argument elucidates cultural meaning relevant to a particular time and specific place, with implications for broader application. 1 Reading geometric patterns as visual commentary, this approach relates the presence of patterns in art accompanied by a Qur'anic inscripti…
Sciences, Crafts, and the Production of Knowledge: Iran and Eastern Islamic Lands (ca. 184–1153 AH/800–1740 CE)
Two successive sessions held at the Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies in London (3-5 August 2006) mark the occasion for publishing the present volume. The organizers and session chairs, Elaheh Kheirandish and Carol Bier ("Geometry in Medieval Persian Sciences and the Arts") and Najm al-Din Yousefi ("Science and Technology in Medieval and Early Modern Iran") found sufficient common ground among their diverse subjects and approaches to c…
Islamic art: Textiles
Arab Dress: A Short History, from the Dawn of Islam to Modern Times
Islamische Textilkunst des Mittelalters: Aktuelle Probleme . Karel Otavsky
Textiles of Late Antiquity . Annemarie Stauffer
Art: Crafts, Technology, and Material Culture
Combining Aesthetic Intent with Utilitarian Value, Hand-Crafted objects may be beautiful as well as functional. Crafts rely upon human ingenuity and productivity. They encompass both the products and the processes of production that comprise most aspects of material culture. The crafts of preindustrial Iran achieved distinction for their high levels of technical and aesthetic accomplishment. At different times in Iranian history, crafts sustained…
Ornament and Islamic Art
Review of: The Mediation of Ornament, by OLEG GRABAR & Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament, by ALOIS RIEGL. TWO MAJOR WORKS addressing the nature of art, published in the same year but written a century apart, are each based, in part, upon analyses of Islamic monuments. Both derive from series of lectures on the history of ornament, and each offers a perspective explicitly countering the author's own intellectual milieu in th…
Textiles de l'Iran et de la Chine
Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th-19th Centuries
Islamic Metalwork: The Nuhad Es-Said Collection
The Nuhad Es-Said Collection of Islamic metalwork is one of the finest in private hands. It contains examples of inlaid bronzes and brasses from 6th/12th and 7th/13th Herat and 7th/13th century Mosul, from Ayvubid Syria, Saljuk Anatolia, the Mamluk empire and the Dehli sultanate, and from Il-Khanid, Timurid and Safavid Iran. Inlaid with gold, silver and copper, and bearing planetary and astrological figures, mystical symbols, and effusive dedicat…
Annales Islamologiques. Tome XVII (Volume consacré au centenaire de l'Ifao)
Islamic Art in the New York Metropolitan Area
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The Excavations at Korucutepe, Turkey, 1968-70: Preliminary Report. Part II: The Fortification Wall
Islamic Metalwork: The Nuhad Es-Said Collection
The Nuhad Es-Said Collection of Islamic metalwork is one of the finest in private hands. It contains examples of inlaid bronzes and brasses from 6th/12th and 7th/13th Herat and 7th/13th century Mosul, from Ayvubid Syria, Saljuk Anatolia, the Mamluk empire and the Dehli sultanate, and from Il-Khanid, Timurid and Safavid Iran. Inlaid with gold, silver and copper, and bearing planetary and astrological figures, mystical symbols, and effusive dedicat…
Art and Mithāl: Reading Geometry as Visual Commentary
This article seeks to develop an interpretation of ornament as geometric pattern that embodies metaphysical intent in Iranian monuments of the fifth/eleventh century. The proposed argument elucidates cultural meaning relevant to a particular time and specific place, with implications for broader application. 1 Reading geometric patterns as visual commentary, this approach relates the presence of patterns in art accompanied by a Qur'anic inscripti…
The Excavations at Korucutepe, Turkey, 1968-70: Preliminary Report. Part II: The Fortification Wall
Islamic Art in the New York Metropolitan Area
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Annales Islamologiques. Tome XVII (Volume consacré au centenaire de l'Ifao)
Islamic Metalwork: The Nuhad Es-Said Collection
The Nuhad Es-Said Collection of Islamic metalwork is one of the finest in private hands. It contains examples of inlaid bronzes and brasses from 6th/12th and 7th/13th Herat and 7th/13th century Mosul, from Ayvubid Syria, Saljuk Anatolia, the Mamluk empire and the Dehli sultanate, and from Il-Khanid, Timurid and Safavid Iran. Inlaid with gold, silver and copper, and bearing planetary and astrological figures, mystical symbols, and effusive dedicat…
Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th-19th Centuries
Textiles de l'Iran et de la Chine
Ornament and Islamic Art
Review of: The Mediation of Ornament, by OLEG GRABAR & Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament, by ALOIS RIEGL. TWO MAJOR WORKS addressing the nature of art, published in the same year but written a century apart, are each based, in part, upon analyses of Islamic monuments. Both derive from series of lectures on the history of ornament, and each offers a perspective explicitly countering the author's own intellectual milieu in th…
Art: Crafts, Technology, and Material Culture
Combining Aesthetic Intent with Utilitarian Value, Hand-Crafted objects may be beautiful as well as functional. Crafts rely upon human ingenuity and productivity. They encompass both the products and the processes of production that comprise most aspects of material culture. The crafts of preindustrial Iran achieved distinction for their high levels of technical and aesthetic accomplishment. At different times in Iranian history, crafts sustained…
Textiles of Late Antiquity . Annemarie Stauffer
Islamische Textilkunst des Mittelalters: Aktuelle Probleme . Karel Otavsky
Arab Dress: A Short History, from the Dawn of Islam to Modern Times
Islamic art: Textiles
Part One: The “Elements” of Sciences and Crafts
Among the sciences and crafts of eastern Islamic lands, geometry emerges as a subject that transcends disciplinary boundaries with which we are familiar today. The Elements and Optics of Euclid (ca. 300 BCE), the Conies of Appollonios (third century BCE), and the Mechanics of Heron (first century CE) and Pappus of Alexandria (fourth century CE), highlight the prominence of geometry in the sciences. Apart from the textual tradition and the written…
Art and Mithāl: Reading Geometry as Visual Commentary
This article seeks to develop an interpretation of ornament as geometric pattern that embodies metaphysical intent in Iranian monuments of the fifth/eleventh century. The proposed argument elucidates cultural meaning relevant to a particular time and specific place, with implications for broader application. 1 Reading geometric patterns as visual commentary, this approach relates the presence of patterns in art accompanied by a Qur'anic inscripti…
Sciences, Crafts, and the Production of Knowledge: Iran and Eastern Islamic Lands (ca. 184–1153 AH/800–1740 CE)
Two successive sessions held at the Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies in London (3-5 August 2006) mark the occasion for publishing the present volume. The organizers and session chairs, Elaheh Kheirandish and Carol Bier ("Geometry in Medieval Persian Sciences and the Arts") and Najm al-Din Yousefi ("Science and Technology in Medieval and Early Modern Iran") found sufficient common ground among their diverse subjects and approaches to c…
Sasanian Textiles
Despite the vagaries of preservation, fragments of Sasanian textiles have survived at a number of sites on the periphery of the Sasanian Empire, particularly in western China, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. These display complex iconography better illustrated in many cases on Sasanian rock reliefs, particularly at Taq-e Bustan, and on silver vessels. This chapter discusses the weaving techniques used to produce Sasanian textiles, as well as thei…
Pattern-Making and Textile Technologies across Asia
To consider textiles along the trade routes that traverse Asia is to consider materials, technologies, images and ideas: fibres and filaments, dyestuffs, and the technologies of felt-making, weaving, embroidery, carpet-weaving and block-printing. Pattern-making is affected by all of these factors. And the trajectories of designs, repeated to form patterns, bring us to confront changes in meaning over time and space, relating textiles to the histo…
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