Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526 1658

ISBN-13: 9781138564879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 318 str.

Valerie Gonzalez

Opis

The first critical study to be published on Mughal pictorial hybridity, this book investigates the workings of the diverse creative forces that underpinned the formation of the Mughal painting. Valerie Gonzalez here explores - with the updated methodology of art criticism - the processes of cross-fertilization between the Indo-Persianate legacy, the Persian models imported after 1555 and the influx of European art that have brought about a unique Indo-Islamic pictorial metaphysics characterized by a positivist mimetic order distinct from the idealistic Persian pictoriality.

Recenzje

'Equipped with an understanding of aesthetics as the analysis of the sensory and affective encounter and a deep respect for artistic creativity, Gonzalez is able to argue for a new understanding of Mughal painting’s aesthetic syntheses of Indic, Persian, Islamic, and European pictorial traditions. Her phenomenological method permits an acute account of how a work of art makes a world through practices of spatiality, textuality, and figurality. Her historical analysis compellingly explains the transformations of these practices during the Mughal empire.' Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University, Canada

O autorze

Valerie Gonzalez is an expert on Islamic art history and aesthetics. She teaches Islamic studies at the Leighton House Museum, London. She was previously a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, USA.