Persian Calligraphy: A Corpus Study of Letterforms

ISBN-13: 9780367777371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 330 str.

Mahdiyeh Meidani

Opis

This book is an exploratory adventure to defamiliarize calligraphy, especially Persian Nastaliq calligraphic letterforms, and to look beyond the tradition that has always considered calligraphy as pursuant to and subordinate to linguistic practices.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Corpus Analysis  3. Graphetic Analysis  4. Toward Semiotics of Nastaliq Calligraphy  5. Holliday's Triple Metafunctions: As Requisite of Any Semiotic Mode – In Nastaliq Calligraphy  6. Toward A Distinct Feature Analysis  7. Conclusion 

 

O autorze

Mahdiyeh Meidani is a visual artist and a researcher in the field of Media and Visual Communication. After studying Fine Arts and Media and Communication, she has worked as a graphic designer, text artist, and calligrapher and has held individual and group exhibitions in calligraphy, typography, and lettering. She has also taught Persian calligraphy and lettering. Her main research interests include multimodality and social semiotics, as well as visual semiotics and materiality of fine arts and writing.