Doors of the Kingdom Tapa dura - 1999

New York: Aperture, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages, color photographs, Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Doors of the Kingdom is a unique collection of photographs depicting the ancient and disappearing craft of doormaking in Arabia. The Islamic concept of hurma, or sanctity of a place of dwelling or worship, is recurrent throughout Arabic poetry and literature. The door (bab), preserver of sanctity, becomes symbolic of the boundary between public and private space, and between the profane and the sacred. In 1995, Haajar Gouverneur traveled throughout the Arabian Peninsula photographing each region's distinctive doorways and the remaining artisans who make them. The doors of Arabia, painstakingly hand-carved from the wood of the Al-Athel trees, last in their exquisite variety for hundreds of years. This ancient craft, passed down from generation to generation in the central and northern regions of Saudi Arabia, is now nearly… Leer más

Aperature / Dar Nun, 1999. 96pp. Original green cloth covered boards. Stated First Edition. 1st Printing (with complete number line). Photographs by Haajar Gouverneur. Calligraphy by Mohamed Zakariya. Pages are clean (unmarked). Binding is tight and secure. Boards have slight bumping to head/heel of spine, slight rubbing to extremities. Unclipped DJ has bumping/rubbing to head of spine and corners corners. We have added a removable mylar covering to the dust jacket for protection. Doors of the Kingdom is a unique collection of photographs depicting the ancient and disappearing craft of doormaking in Arabia. . First Edition, 1st Printing. Oversized Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good -. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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