Persian Art : : Image-making in Eurasia / / Yuka Kadoi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Kadoi, Yuka,
• MitwirkendeR: Compareti, Matteo,; Kadoi, Yuka,; Lerner, Judith A.,; McClary, Richard Piran,; Nünlist, Tobias,; Ritter, Markus,; Santos, Raquel,; Stermotich-Cappellari, Francesco,; Szántó, Iván,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 34 B/W illustrations 16 colour illustrations

Explores the pictorial, material and technological richness of the Persian worldIn this illustrated book, nine contributors explore multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and material culture of the Persian cultural realm, encompassing West Asia, Anatolia, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe. 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, medieval and early modern Islamic to modern times.Key FeaturesProvides an insightful picture of the expansion of Persian visual culture across wide swathes of Asia, from the Indian Ocean to the MediterraneanConsiders various media including manuscript painting, portable objects, architectural traditions, building technology, science, calligraphy and carpets, from about the third century AD to modern timesOffers a colourful mosaic of new research into Persian visual culture by experts with diverse disciplinary backgroundPresents Persian art as trans-regionally uniform in style, iconography, function and meaningBeautifully illustrated with colour and black and white imagesContributorsMatteo ComparetiYuka KadoiJudith A. LernerRichard Piran McClaryTobias NünlistMarkus RitterRaquel SantosFrancesco Stermotich-CappellariIván Szántó

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- CHAPTER 1 The Visual Culture of Greater Iran: Some Examples of Kushano-Sasanian Art -- CHAPTER 2 The Late Sasanian Figurative Capitals at Taq-i Bustan: Proposals Regarding Identification and Origins -- CHAPTER 3 Architecture of the Wider Persian World: from Central Asia to Western Anatolia in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- CHAPTER 4 From Acquisition to Display: the Reception of Chinese Ceramics in the Pre-modern Persian World -- CHAPTER 5 Devotion and Protection: Four Amuletic Scrolls from Safavid Persia -- CHAPTER 6 The Minarets of Hurmuzgan -- CHAPTER 7 Persian, Indian or Indo-Persian? The Study of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Knotted Pile Carpets -- CHAPTER 8 The Calligraphic Art of Mishkin Qalam -- CHAPTER 9 The Kashan Mihrab in Berlin: a Historiography of Persian Lustreware -- List of the Contributors -- Index