The formation of Islamic art

Oleg Grabar (1929-2011), a born researcher, an enlightener and a teacher who had a huge erudition, an inquisitive analytical mind and a rare course of the narrator, from the young age dedicated his life to the study of the history and theory of Islamic art, including architecture.
The method of scientific surveys, his articles, books, lectures, reports, scientific records had a decisive impact on the formation of views of several generations of his students and on the extensiveness of the activities of many of his colleagues. It is Professor Grabaru, world art workers are obliged to be wide, versatile, full and relevant development of an Islamic topic.
Before Oleg Grabara, the history of the art of the Islamic world was considered predominantly from the Euro-centrist point of view. Grabar set as a goal to find out how his creators themselves understood the arts and its customers themselves, and discovered their followers to the theoretical study of the artistic culture of Islam.
First published in 1973 and re-delivered in augmented and recycled form in 1987, the monograph of Oleg Grabara "formation of Islamic art" was translated into a number of European and eastern languages. Despite the past decades, it is this work that remains the most important and only completeness and complexity of problems with the work of the history and theory of Islamic art and still excuses the minds spontaneous emergence of new issues and hypotheses