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Persian art image-making in Eurasia edited by Yuka Kadoi

Catalog Data

Author:
Kadoi, Yuka  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 183 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 29 cm
Type:
Congresses
Congrè€s
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Actes de congrè€s
Place:
Iran
Date:
2018
Notes:
"This volume is a selection of the papers given to the International Conference held at the University of Edinburgh in October 2014, entitled 'The visual world of Persianate Culture'"--Preface
Contents:
The visual culture of greater Iran : some examples of Kushano-Sasanian art / Judith A. Lerner -- The late Sasanian figurative capitals at Taq-i Bustan : proposals regarding identification and origins / Matteo Compareti -- Architecture of the wider Persian world : from central Asia to western Anatolia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Richard Piran McClary -- From acquisition to display : the reception of Chinese ceramics in the pre-modern Persian world / Yuka Kadoi -- Devotion and protection : four amuletic scrolls from Safavid Persia / Tobias Nunlist -- The minarets of Hurmuzgan / Ivan Szanto -- Persian, Indian or Indo-Persian? The study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century knotted pile carpets / Raquel Santos -- The calligraphic art of Mishkin Qalam / Francesco Stermotich-Cappellari -- The Kashan Mihrab in Berlin : a historiography of Persian lustreware / Markus Ritter
Summary:
"Explores the pictorial, material and technological richness of the Persian world. In this illustrated book, nine contributors explore multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and material culture of the Persian cultural realm, encompassing West Asia, Anatolia, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe. Each chapter examines the historical, religious or scientific role of visual culture in the shaping, influencing and transforming of distinctive 'Persian' aesthetics across the various historical periods, ranging from pre-Islamic, medieval and early modern Islamic to modern times"-- Provided by publisher
Topic:
Art, Iranian--History  Search this
Art--History  Search this
Art iranien--Histoire  Search this
Art--Histoire  Search this
Art  Search this
Art, Iranian  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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