The practice of Islamic art history
Subtitle: Oleg Grabar
By: interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; Art History Oral Documentation Project compiled under the auspices of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Contributors: Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Oleg Grabar
Description: Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Open for qualified researchers.

Transcripts of the interviews jointly sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

Oleg Grabar (1929-2011) was a French-born scholar of Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology. He was a professor of art history at the University of Michigan from 1954 to 1969, and at Harvard from 1969 to 1990. In 1990, he joined the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton.

Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)