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Islamic Art and Architecture

The System of Geometric Design

by Issam El-Said

Imprint: Garnet Authors: Issam El-Said Categories: Art & Architecture ISBN: 9781873938454 Binding: Hardback Publication Date: Ferbruary 2008 RRP:

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Issam El-Said pinpoints the rules of composition that form the basis of the geometric concepts of Islamic art. He then shows how intricate patterns are based on these basic principles. Fully illustrated in three colours to show the development of the patterns, this book offers an insight into how craftsmen and designers in the Muslim world achieved monumental feats of artistic expression using the simplest of tools.

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Issam El-Said Issam El-Said (1938-88) was a prominent Iraqi artist and calligrapher. He achieved a BA Architecture from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1961; studied art at Hammersmith College of Art and Design, London in 1962-4 and prepared for a PhD on the Methodology of Geometric Proportioning in Islamic Architecture at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1988, which was sadly not completed due to his untimely death that year.

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