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Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld

Kenneth M. George
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5979-4
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184 pages
September 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld explores issues of religion, nationalism, ethnicity, and globalization through the life and work of the prominent contemporary Indonesian artist Abdul Djalil Pirous.
  • Presents a unique addition to the anthropology of art and religion
  • Demonstrates the impact of Islam, ethnicity, nationalism, and globalization on the work and life of an internationally recognized postcolonial artist
  • Weaves together visual and narrative materials to tell an engrossing story of a cosmopolitan Muslim artist
  • Looks at contemporary Islamic art and the way it has been produced in the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia