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Author |
: Vice-President Eleanor G Sims |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300090383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300090382 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peerless Images by : Vice-President Eleanor G Sims
This book is the first survey of the figural arts of the Iranian world from prehistoric times to the early twentieth century ever to consider themes, rather than styles. Analyzing primarily painting - in manuscripts and albums, on walls and on lacquered, painted pen boxes and caskets - but also the related arts of sculpture, ceramics, and metalwork, the author finds that the underlying themes depicted on them through the ages are remarkably consistent. Eleanor Sims demonstrates that all these arts display similar concerns: kingship and legitimacy; the righteous exercise of princely power and the defense of national territory; and the performance of rituals and the religious duties called for by the paramount cult of the day. She describes a variety of superb works of art inside and outside these categories, noting not only how they illustrate archetypal themes but also what it is about them that is unique. She also discusses the ways that Iranian art both influenced and was influenced by invaders and neighboring lands. Boris I. Marshak discusses pre-Islamic and also Central Asian art, in particular the earliest Iranian wall paintings and their pictorial parallels in rock carvings and metalwork, and the richly painted temples and houses of Panjikent. Ernst J. Grube considers religious imagery, and provides an informative bibliography.
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Total Pages |
: 112 |
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: 1997-11 |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
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Author |
: Celina Jeffery |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2009-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443807319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443807311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Images of Thought by : Celina Jeffery
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.
Author |
: Tawfiq Daʿadli |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2019-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004398412 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004398414 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting by : Tawfiq Daʿadli
In Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting Tawfiq Daʿadli decodes the pictorial language which flourished in the city of Herat, modern Afghanistan, under the rule of the last Timurid ruler, Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r.1469-1506). This study focuses on one illustrated manuscript of a poem entitled Khamsa by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, kept in the British Library under code Or.6810. Tawfiq Daʿadli decodes the paintings, reveals the syntax behind them and thus deciphers the message of the whole manuscript. The book combines scholarly efforts to interpret theological-political lessons embedded in one of the foremost Persian schools of art against the background of the court dynamic of an influential medieval power in its final years.
Author |
: Charles Phillips |
Publisher |
: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2011-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448859900 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448859905 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Indias Myths and Beliefs by : Charles Phillips
An introduction to myths of ancient India features commentary on tales about the divinities, the ten incarnations of Vishnu, and female figures prevalent in the legends.
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Total Pages |
: 176 |
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: 2004-01-20 |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis PC Mag by :
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Author |
: Gregory Minissale |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822034428763 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Images of Thought by : Gregory Minissale
Images of Thought is an entirely new approach to understanding non-Western art. Supported by a wide reading in anthropology, theology and philosophy, it provides an intellectual context for reading the visual language of Indian and Persian miniature art. By decoding artistic conventions, and with searching visual analyses, the book attempts to transform our understanding of art as an illustration of history to art as a reflection of the intellect. Images of Thought should be of interest to the general reader, students and scholars of art and critical theory, as it shows that one of the worldâ (TM)s richest painting traditions can offer important insights into issues of visual perception and intellectual production generally.
Author |
: Mariachiara Gasparini |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2019-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824881702 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824881702 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transcending Patterns by : Mariachiara Gasparini
In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through the analysis of the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin and more than a thousand textiles held in collections worldwide, Gasparini discloses and reconstructs the rich cultural entanglements along the Silk Road, between the coming of Islam and the rise of the Mongol Empire, from the Tarim to Mediterranean Basin. Exploring in detail the iconographic transfer between different agents and different media from Central Asian caves to South Italian churches, the author depicts and describes the movement and exchange of portable objects such as sculpture, wall painting, and silk fragments across the Asian continent and across the ages. Gasparini’s history offers critical perspectives that extend far beyond an outmoded notion of “Silk Road studies.” Her cross-media work shows readers how certain material cultures are connected not only by the physical routes they take but also because of the meanings and interpretations these objects engage in various places. Transcending Patterns is at once art history, material and visual cultural history, Asian studies, conservatory studies, and linguistics.
Author |
: Antje Flüchter |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2014-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319097404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319097407 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dynamics of Transculturality by : Antje Flüchter
The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India, the early modern Portuguese presence in China and politics of elite-mass dynamics in the People’s Republic of China, the book provides a template for the study of transcultural dynamics over time. Besides the epochal range, the papers in this volume illustrate the thematic diversity assembled under the umbrella of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.” Drawing from both the humanities and social sciences, stretching across several world areas and centuries, the book is an interdisciplinary work, aptly reflected in the collaboration of its editors: a historian and political scientist.
Author |
: Leslee Michelsen |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2013-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789992195987 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9992195983 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art (English Edition) by : Leslee Michelsen
Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art represents a partnership between the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and the students and teachers of the Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture in Kabul. The unifying theme of the exhibition is the preservation of the traditional arts of the Islamic world - in both themes and materials - in the modern world, and the role of education in its transmission and translation. Half of the objects featured in the exhibition are historical objectsmasterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art's collection, from four great dynasties with connections to Afghanistan: the Ghaznavids, Timurids, Mughals and Safavids.The other half of the exhibition presents works created specifically for the exhibition by Turquoise Mountain students in response to, and in conversation with, the historical objects. Featuring exquisite photography and unique research, this catalogue is a visually stunning representation of the exhibition and a valuable record of an extraordinary endeavour.