Sara Kuehn, Ph.D. (2008) in Islamic Art History and Archaeology, Free University of Berlin, is researcher at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). Following earlier studies in Chinese and Japanese art and archaeology, her research now centres on the art and archaeology of the Irano-Turkish world. She is currently preparing a monograph on the iconography of angels in Islamic art.
Winner of the 20th World Prize for the Book of the Year of the
Islamic Republic of Iran (2013).
"The book […] will serve for many decades as the standard reference
volume for virtually every question the mediaeval dragon
iconography raises." – Iván Szántó, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die
Kunde des Morgenlandes 103 (2013), 499-501
"It is not just that it is illustrated with 209 plates, many of
previously unpublished material, with its photos of architectural
structures, and its vast collection of artefacts that makes this
one of the most fascinating books to read. It is first of all the
quality of the author herself, as made evident in every page of
this volume. [...] A study exciting to read for a general reader,
essential as reference for those interested in iconography, the
religious, cultural, scientific, assiciations of the dragon motif,
the history of its cross-cultural representation in art." – Stavros
Nikolaidis, in: The Journal of Oriental and African Studies 22
(2013), 330-333
"… ce livre hautement informatif demeure une source indispensable
d’informations pour qui s’intéresse à l’iconographie du dragon. […]
Son intéret est d’autant plus important qu’il est richement
illustré et présente au lecteur des photographies détaillées d’un
grand nombre de monuments et d’objets qui n’avaient jamais été
publiées auparavant, ou seulement en noir et blanc […]." – Bas
Snelders, in: Eastern Christian Art 9 (2012-2013), 119-124 [DOI:
10.21.43/ECA.9.0.3044826]
"[This book] deserves to be seen as THE book of the dragon in early
and medieval Islamic art, and it will remain a must-be-consulted
tool for searching reliable references on the iconography of
Islamic art in general but the dragon in particular." – Yuka Kadoi,
in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 23 July 2015 [DOI:
10.1017/S1356186315000395]
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