Monday Eye Candy: Enfoldment and Infinity

Happy Monday! This week's eye candy comes from Laura Marks' Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art, which features 31 color illustrations and 140 black & white illustrations. Click on each image to enlarge. Check back on 2/27 for the next Monday Eye Candy pick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dome of the Friday Mosque at Yazd, Iran (1324-1328). Photograph by Laura Marks.

 

 

 

 

 

Detail of minbar (pulpit) for Sultan Qaitbay (1468-1496) of cedar with ivory and wood inlay. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Photograph by Laura Marks.

 

 

 

 

 

Detail of mural showing 'Ali (veiled), nineteenth century, Mausoleum of Harun-i Vilayat, Isfahan. Photograph by Laura Marks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lionel Kearns, "The Birth of God/uniVerse," artist's book (1965). Photograph by Laura Marks.

 

 

 

 

Detail, vase carpet, Iran, sixteenth century. Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Photograph by Laura Marks.