Persian Art: Image-Making in Eurasia

ISBN-13: 9781474411158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str.

Yuka Kadoi

Opis

An immensely rich visual culture has always existed in modern-day Iran and the surrounding regions from late antiquity, often shaped by encounters with different zones of contact and patronised by ruling elites and dynasties with a myriad of artistic and cultural traditions, needs and agendas. This book explores these encounters and the art they produced. Covering the multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and material culture of the Persian cultural realm, it encompasses West Asia, Anatolia, Central Asia and South Asia. 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, through the medieval and early modern Islamic period, to modern times.

Spis treści

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 Nünlist; 6. The Minarets of Hurmuzgan, Iván Szántó; 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.