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Shahnama - The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover, New edition)
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Shahnama - The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Visual Arts Research Institute Edinburgh
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Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings presents
the first comprehensive examination of the interplay between text
and image in the celebrated Persian national epic, the Shahnama,
written by the poet Firdausi of Tus. The Shahnama is one of the
longest poems ever composed and recounts the history of Iran from
the dawn of time to the Muslim Arab conquests of the seventh
century AD. There is no Persian text, in prose or poetry, which has
been so frequently and lavishly illustrated. Offering fresh
insights through a range of varied art-historical approaches to the
Shahnama, the essays in this volume reveal how the subtle
alterations in text and image serve to document changes in taste
and style and can be understood as reflections of the changing role
of the national epic in the imagination of Iranians and the equally
changing messages - often political in nature - which the familiar
stories were made to convey over the centuries.
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