| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
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Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-247) and index. |
| Contents |
Pictorial preface -- Writing on the image -- Potential world -- Calligraphic line -- Wondrous signature. |
| Summary |
"In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter's delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist's likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used a number of strategies to shift manuscript painting from an illustrative device to a self-reflective object, designed to highlight the artist's imagination and manual dexterity. These strategies include visual abundance, linear precision, the incorporation of inscriptions addressing aspects of the painting and the artist's signature. Focusing on one of the most iconic manuscripts of the Persianate tradition, the Cairo Bustan, made in late Timurid Herat and bearing the signatures of the painter Bihzad, this book argues that Bihzad's paintings defined authorship as making: at once an imaginative process and a manual endeavour."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bihzād, active 16th century.
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Bihzād, active 16th century. |
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Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts.
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Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts. |
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Art, Middle Eastern.
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Art, Middle Eastern. |
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Timurids -- History.
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Timurids. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1474437435 9781474437431 (OCoLC)1039932134 |
| ISBN |
9781474437455 (electronic book) |
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1474437451 (electronic book) |
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9781474464918 (electronic book) |
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1474464912 (electronic book) |
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1474437435 |
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9781474437431 |
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9781474437462 Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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147443746X |
| Standard No. |
9781474437431 |
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