TY - BOOK AU - Blair,Sheila AU - Bloom,Jonathan ED - Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture TI - And diverse are their hues: color in Islamic art and culture SN - 9780300175721 : AV - N7432.7 .H36 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - New Haven [Conn.], London PB - Yale University Press KW - Color in art KW - Congresses KW - Islamic arts KW - Farbe KW - swd KW - Islamische Kunst KW - Kongress KW - Córdoba KW - 2009 N1 - Thirteen papers presented at the Third Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa International Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture held in Córdoba, Spain in 2009; Includes bibliographical references P. 361-377) and index; Introduction: color in Islamic art and culture; Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair --; "Designs always polychromed or gilded": the aesthetics of color in the Alhambra; Olga Bush --; Red and yellow: colors and the quest for political legitimacy in the Islamic West; Maribel Fierro --; Color and the mystics: light, beauty, and the spiritual quest; Samir Mahmoud --; "I guess that's why they call it the blues": depiction of Majnun in Persian illuminated manuscripts; Julie Scott Meisami --; Blue behind gold: the inscription of the Dome of the Rock and its relatives; Lawrence Nees --; Tiles of many hues: the development of Iranian cuerda seca tiles and the transfer of tilework technology; Bernard O'Kane --; The science of color: color analysis and the roles of economics, geography, and tradition in the artist's choice of colors for manuscript painting; Cheryl Porter --; Red rosettes: colors of power and piety in Rasulid Yemen; Noha Sadek --; "Threads of every color": on mudéjar and cultural comparison in colonial Latin America; Michael Schreffler --; Why my name is red: an introductory inquiry; Marianna Shreve Simpson --; The hues of paradise: examining color design layout in the Persian garden; Manu P. Sobti and Mohammad Gharipour --; Color in carpets: some observations on color in carpets; Jon Thompson ER -