{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Development of Styles}[15th April 1991]

[Redbook9:128][19910415:0840ee]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Development of Styles}[15th April 1991]

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‘A second point of definition concerns the question of whether there was an early Islamic style or [whether there were] perhaps even several styles in some sort of succession. The fascinating fact is that there is a clear succession only in those artistic features that are Islamic inventions – non-figurative ornaments and ceramics. For it is only in development of these features that one can assume to* find **|the conscious search for form that can create a period style.|** Elsewhere, especially in palace art, the Muslim world sought to relate itself to an earlier and more universal tradition of princely art; its monuments, therefore, are less Islamic than typological. In the new art of the Muslim bourgeoisie, however, uniquely Islamic artistic phenomena began to evolve.’

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***– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 84

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