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Images of Thought - Visuality in Islamic India 1550-1750 (Paperback, 2nd Unabridged edition)
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Images of Thought - Visuality in Islamic India 1550-1750 (Paperback, 2nd Unabridged edition)
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With many illustrations and diagrams, Images of Thought provides
easy to follow ways in which to read Indian, Persian and European
paintings in terms of composition, proportion, colour symbolism and
references to myth. Yet it also provides the intellectual contexts
of Islamic cultures which inform our perceptions of how this visual
language works. The author uses salient aspects of critical theory,
anthropology and theology to sensitise viewers to the diversity and
difference of cultural readings but never loses sight of the
primacy of the visual and formal characteristics, gestures,
geometrical structures and their cooperation with myths and
theologemes. The book provides access to one of the world's major
visual traditions whose characteristics continue to inform and
elucidate Indian and Islamic contemporary thought today. Images of
Thought is a major, scholarly and provocative contribution not only
to our understanding of cultural individuality but it offers
important examples of how to engage in transcultural understanding
and ways of seeing.
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