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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John Carswell , Mina Moraitou , Melanie GibsonPublisher: GINGKO Imprint: Gingko Library ISBN: 9781914983047ISBN 10: 1914983041 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 19 June 2023 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews"""Lavishly illustrated.""-- ""Ceramics Review""" Author InformationJohn Carswell graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 1951, and subsequently worked as an archaeological draughtsman at Jericho and throughout the Near East, before joining the American University of Beirut (1956-76), where he became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts. He was Visiting Professor at SOAS, London University from 1957–58; Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum and Director of the Smart Museum, University of Chicago, 1978-88; Vice President and Chairman of the Islamic Department, Sotheby’s, London 1988–98. He is now an independent scholar living in Spain; Mina Moraitou completed her studies at SOAS, University of London where she received a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art in 1992 and an MA in the History of Islamic Art in 1996. Since 1992, she has been working at the Benaki Museum: she contributed to the creation of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in July 2004 and became curator in 2012. She has coordinated and curated several exhibitions: Thomas Hope: Drawings of Ottoman Istanbul (Athens, 2016, Sharjah 2017); Iznik- a Fascination with Ceramics (2017); Islamic Calligraphy: The Art of Iranian Writing (2018) and Roads of Arabia (2019); Melanie Gibson is senior editor of the Gingko Library Art Series. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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