Persian Art -

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Résumé :
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. Key Features . Provides an insightful picture of the expansion of Persian visual culture across wide swathes of Asia, from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean . Considers various media including manuscript painting, portable objects, architectural traditions, building technology, science, calligraphy and carpets, from the Sasanian / early Islamic period to modern times . Offers a colourful mosaic of new research into Persian visual culture by experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds . Presents Persian art as trans-regionally uniform in style, iconography, function and meaning Yuka Kadoi is a historian of Islamic and Asian art. She is the author and editor of many publications, including Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

Biographie:

Yuka Kadoi, PhD, is a historian of Islamic and Asian art. She is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Persian Art: Image-making in Eurasia (EUP, 2017).

Sommaire:
Preface and acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note to the Reader; 1. The Visual Culture of Greater Iran: Some Examples of Kushano-Sasanian Art, Judith A. Lerner; 2. The Late Sasanian Figurative Capitals at Taq-i Bustan: Proposals Regarding Identification and Origins, Matteo Compareti; 3. Architecture of the Wider Persian World: From Central Asia to Western Anatolia in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Richard Piran McClary; 4. From Acquisition to Display: The Reception of Chinese Ceramics in the Pre-modern Persian World, Yuka Kadoi; 5. Devotion and Protection: Four Amuletic Scrolls from Safavid Persia, Tobias N?nlist; 6. The Minarets of Hurmuzgan, Iv?n Sz?nt?; 7. Persia, India or Indo-Persian? The Study of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Knotted Pile Carpets, Raquel Santos; 8. The Calligraphic Art of Mishkin Qalam, Francesco Stermotich-Cappellari; 9. The Kashan Mihrab in Berlin: A Historiography of Persian Lustreware, Markus Ritter; Contributors; Index.