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"Tibetans create art to open windows from the ordinary, earthly world onto a perfected universe. Their tangka paintings, sculptures, and mandalas are regarded as points to transition from the coarse world we know to the perfected enlightenment realm…

Surreal paintings combine the detail of anatomical illustrations with the spiritual images of Buddhism.

"Throughout the East, writing is held to be a gift from the gods, and the divinely inspired letters and characters are objects of the highest veneration. The religious significance of calligraphy has thus led to a unique development of the art of…

"The transformation of Islamic architecture and ornament during the eleventh and twelfth centuries signaled profound cultural changes in the Islamic world. Yasser Tabbaa explores with exemplary lucidity the geometric techniques that facilitated this…