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Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book (Hardcover, Revised)
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The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult
to access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus
primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th
centuries. In this period, Iran dominated the art of book painting
in the Islamic world. The articles reprinted here examine various
aspects of this, the golden age of Persian painting. They range
from the period of Mongol rule, when the impact of Far Eastern
themes and modes radically transformed the heritage bequeathed to
Iran by Arab painting - a textbook case of the clash of
civilisations - to the dawn of the modern era and the swansong of
the classical style of Persian painting under the early Safavids.
Yet other articles focus on the roots of book painting in the
themes and styles developed in painted ceramics, on medieval
Qur'anic calligraphy, on bookbinding and on the remarkably original
variations played on the hitherto hackneyed theme of the figural
frontispiece by Arab painters. Two major leitmotifs are explored in
this selection of essays. One is provided by the constantly varying
interpretations of the Shahnama (The Book of Kings), the Persian
national epic, and especially the tendency of painters to interpret
this familiar text in terms of contemporary politics. The other is
the interplay of text and image, which highlights the tendency of
painters to strike out on their own and to leave the literal text
progressively further behind while they develop plots and sub-plots
of their own. These enquiries are set within the context of a
concerted effort to explore in detail how Persian painters achieved
their most spectacular visual effects. In its combination of
general surveys and closely focused analyses of individual
manuscripts, this collection of articles will be of interest to
specialists in book painting and in Islamic art as a whole.
Contents: Preface The Uses of Space in Timurid Painting The
Iconography of the Shah-nama-yi Shahi The Iskandar Cycle in the
Great Mongol Shahnama Images of Muhammad in al-Biruni's Chronology
of Ancient Nations The Arts of the Book in Ilkhanid Iran The
paintings of Rashid al-Din's 'Universal History' at Edinburgh
Mamluk and Ilkhanid Bestiaries: Convention and Experiment The
Qur'an Illuminated The relationship between book painting and
luxury ceramics in 13th-century Iran, The Message of Misfortune
Literature and the visual arts; New Perspectives in Shahnama
Iconography Erudition exalted: the double frontispiece to The
Epistles of the Sincere Brethren The Shahnama and the illustrated
book Islamic Bookbinding Index
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