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Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts

Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts

Contadini, Anna

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceAsian Art

ISBN10: 9004729542
ISBN13: 9789004729544
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 23 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.20 Depth: 11.40
Language: English
Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of appreciation in its own terms, and not as a mere precursor to Persian painting. The book assembles papers by a distinguished list of scholars that illuminate the variety of material that survives in scientific as well as literary manuscripts. Because of the contexts in which the paintings appear, a major theoretical concern is, precisely, the relationship of painting to text. It rejects earlier scholarly habits of analysing paintings in isolation, and proposes the integration of text and image as a more satisfactory framework within which to elucidate the characteristics and functions of this impressive body of work.

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