Avinoʿam Shalem Livres

Several visits, namely field work trips, were taken by Wolf and Shalem between the years 2006 and 2009. These trips were aim at defining the specific scale that this project might take and is particular focus and also spotting the ideal areas for the photographic campaigns. Ca. 900-1000 pictures focus and also spotting the ideal areas for the photographer, Dror Maayan, whose tusk was to document all graffiti paintings on both sides of the wall. The images were taken in September 2007, and in December 2007. They document the areas of Jerusalem, Beth Lehem, Ramallah and several other chechpoints and passages, mainly around the area of Jerusalem. Facing the Wall aims at displaying the wall as an object of artistic desire. A space of artistic interactions and a canvas on which artists, be it local Palestinians and Israelis or international ones, display their messages visually. In fact, and as compared to other published material on the Isreali-Palestinian Wall which were mainly focused on the political and social outcomes of the erection of the wall, this study sheds light on the wall as an open gallery space, from both sides of which artists could act.

thevolume represents a significant contribution to the complex history of the conceptualization and pictorialization of the Prophet Muhammad in the West. It gives a rapid and though deep overview of the history of the making of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in Europe and thus reflects the whole history of the making of the image of Islam in the Latin West, from the early medieval times till the 19th century. The book also provides the reader with ready access to the most recent scholarship concerning the image of Muhammad in Europe, in the form of comprehensive footnotes provided throughout the text and an extensive bibliography.

Die sogenannte Kasel des Thomas Becket (1118–1170) gehört zu den prachtvollsten mittelalterlichen Textilien des Mittelmeerraums. Reich verziert mit Ornamenten, fantastischen Tieren und Figuren in üppiger Goldstickerei sowie mit arabischen Inschriften zeugt das kostbare liturgische Gewand eindrucksvoll von der Wiederverwendung islamischer Künste in der christlichen Welt. Die als Reliquie des hl. Thomas von Canterbury verehrte Kasel entstammt spanisch-muslimischen Werkstätten und gelangte vermutlich um 1200 als Stiftung nach Italien, in die Kathedrale von Fermo. Ungeachtet seiner herausragenden künstlerischen Qualität und spannenden Geschichte war das prächtige Textil bislang nie Gegenstand einer umfassenden Studie. Reich bebildert mit zahlreichen Details spürt der Band der Bedeutung der Inschriften und Motive nach, untersucht Herstellungstechniken und Funktion des Gewandes, folgt seiner »Biografie« und stellt es in den historischen Kontext der politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Zusammenhänge des Mittelmeerraums.