{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Late Period of Islamic Art [continued (9)]}[20th April 1991]

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‘During the period of [European]* occupation it was questioned whether alien techniques necessarily brought with them new forms. This mood was clearly expressed in literature but less so in the visual arts, **|since the quality of Muslim art had deteriorated so much in the decades preceding*** European arrival that there was no longer a lively creative force to maintain.|** As various schools based on the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris were formed, however, the faculties and the students suffered from constant uncertainty as to whether they should preserve an art that was mostly artisanal or revolutionise it altogether.’

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**||** NB. Why?

***{[Underlined in hatched red]}

****{(cf [[Redbook9:116][19910415:0840j]{[Islamic Art –] The Word (2) [continued (27)]}[15th April 1991],] 116}

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# – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 99

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