Author
Balafrej, Lamia (1984-) See related records as author
Publication Date
2019
Publication Place
Edinburgh -
Subject
Tīmūrides (dynasty) View records linked as subject Behzād, Kamāl al-Dīn (1460?-1535?) View records linked as subject Iranian illumination -- 15th century View records linked as subject — None — Theses and academic writings View records linked as genre or form
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
260
Physical Dimensions
1 vol. (XIII, 260 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Library
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Library Asset ID
FRBNF45763682
Record ID
cb457636825
Library Location
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art See all related records
Date
2019
Notes
Revision of author's doctoral thesis . - Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-247) and index . - Textes en anglais, en persan. - Bibliogr. p. 228-247, index Texte remanié : Thesis : Université Aix-Marseille : 2013 "In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter's delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist's likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used a number of strategies to shift manuscript painting from an illustrative device to a self-reflective object, designed to highlight the artist's imagination and manual dexterity. These strategies include visual abundance, linear precision, the incorporation of inscriptions addressing aspects of the painting and the artist's signature. Focusing on one of the most iconic manuscripts of the Persianate tradition, the Cairo Bustan, made in late Timurid Herat and bearing the signatures of the painter Bihzad, this book argues that Bihzad's paintings defined authorship as making: at once an imaginative process and a manual endeavour."--Jacket
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Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
