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Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair share the Norma Jean
Calderwood University Professorship of Islamic and Asian Art at
Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic
Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. A husband-and-wife team,
they study all aspects of Islamic art from the seventh century to
modern times. Bloom is particularly interested in the arts of the
medieval Mediterranean region as well as the
history of paper. His most recent book is Arts of the City
Victorious (2007), a study of the art and architecture of the
Fatimid period in North Africa and Egypt. Blair is particularly
interested in the arts of Iran and Central Asia, the
Mongols, and the history of the Islamic book. Her latest book is
Islamic Calligraphy (2006), for which she won several international
awards. In addition to their hundreds of individual articles,
reviews, and monographs, they have written or edited seven books
jointly. They also served as consultants to the 3-hour documentary
Islam: Empire of Faith, shown nationally on PBS, and are convenors
of the Hamad bin Khalifa Biennial Symposium on Islamic Art. Both
Bloom and Blair received their Ph.D.s in
Middle Eastern Studies and Fine Arts from Harvard University in
1980.
"This volume is everything that one has come to expect from a Grove
title: literate, comprehensive, and authoritative . . . for
libraries with specialized art or Islamic collections, this is
essential."--Library Journal (Starred Review)
"The editors are to be saluted for the vast amount of readily
accessible information contained in these three volumes."--The Art
Magazine
"It is not only highly recommended for academic and larger public
libraries but its survey articles and sections on history,
historiography, and approaches to scholarship are required reading
for graduate students, who will find especially valuable the
editors' tip that 'there are dissertations waiting to be written
here!'"--Booklist (Outstanding Review)
"Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair continually publish
excellent resources about Islamic art and architecture for the
English-speaking world. Their latest opus, The Grove Encyclopedia
of Islamic Art and Architecture, is worthy to be included on their
stellar list of classic works not only for being the only resource
in English solely devoted to Islamic art and architecture, but also
for its unparalleled scholarship."--American Reference Books
Annual
"Essential. Upper-level undergraduates and above; general
readers"--CHOICE
"Based on their collective and solo achievements, Bloom's and
Blair's GEIAA is destined to become the definite work in the area
of Islamic art and architecture, which will undoubtedly be on the
shelves of all libraries."--American Reference Books Annual
"Readers already hooked on Islamic art will experience that
kid-in-a-candy-shop feeling as they leaf through this marvelously
illustrated three-volume set...so broadly informative and
beautifully done that it is a must for every university library and
all serious students of the subject."
--Religion and the Arts
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