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A Survey Of Persian Handicraft
A Survey Of Persian Handicraft
Jay Gluck and Sumi Hiramoto Gluck, Editors
Carl J. Penton, Asst. Editor
In 1926, Arthur Upham Pope, in commencing a decade of photographing for the monumental A
Survey of Persian Art, recorded traditional craftsmen at work on mosaic tiles and tribal
carpets. During 1964 while in Isfahan with his former student Jay Gluck, Pope spoke of
reviving his original plan to make the Survey a true record of Persian art from the
earliest time to the present, and to add a volume on contemporary folk arts and art
crafts. Studies were begun and test photographs made after Pope and the Glucks moved to
Shiraz in 1966. Pope’s death in 1969 caused suspension of the project. A new project
was launched in 1976 at the behest of H.I.M. Shahbanou Farah under the auspices of Bank
Melli Iran.
A team of connoisseurs, collectors, scholars and photographers were brought together
again under the direction of and in co-authorship with Jay and Sumi Gluck. Iranian
museums, collectors, government and concerned private organizations volunteered their
total cooperation, as did collectors and museums in America and Japan, where several major
public collections had in fact been assembled by Arthur Pope and later by Jay Gluck.
The result is this sumptuous book, produced to the highest editorial and publication
standards. The superb color photographs of Japan’s leading art photographer are
produced by the finest color printing available today, letterpress with each color plate
painstakingly matched to the original object to record the subtlest nuances of the fine
Persian color aesthetic. There are some 640 plates, 404 of which are in color and over 100
of these are full page. Destined to become a collector's item.
1976416pp., cloth, bound to match A Survey of Persian Art, 10.5x12 inches, black
& white and color plates, index.
ISBN:4-89360-024-9(cloth): $95.00
[Limited edition bound in hand blocked Qalamkar, numbered and signed]
ISBN:4-89360-025-7: $175.00
[Please specify which edition when ordering]
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