The Shaping of Persian Art : Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON TRANSLITERATIONAND TERMINOLOGY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY PERSIAN ART NEEDS TO BE STUDIEDAND COLLECTED -- PART ONE -- PERSIAN ART IN ROMANIABEFORE WORLD WAR I -- FROM ARMCHAIR LITERATESTO ART HISTORIANS -- THE CENTRAL ASIAN COLLECTIONAT NATIONAL MUSEUMS SCOTLAND -- PART TWO -- PERSIAN ART IN 19TH-CENTURY VIENNA -- PERSIAN ART FOR THE BALKANSIN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN CULTURAL POLICIES -- THE RECEPTION OF PERSIAN ARTIN THE CZECH LANDS -- PART THREE -- THE MEDIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY -- PERSIAN ART IN FRANCE IN THE 1930S -- PHILIPP WALTER SCHULZAND FRIEDRICH SARRE -- "THE MOST IMPORTANT BRANCHOF MUHAMMADAN ART" -- A LOAN EXHIBITION OF EARLY ORIENTALCARPETS, CHICAGO 1926 -- PART FOUR -- TAJIK ART -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

While the impact of the Persian style is undeniably reflected in most aspects of the art and architecture of Islamic Central Asia, this Perso-Central Asian connection was chiefly formed and articulated by the Euro-American movement of collecting and interpreting the art and material culture of the Persian Islamic world in modern times. This had an enormous impact on the formation of scholarship and connoisseurship in Persian art, for instance, with an attempt to define the characteristics of.

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