Author : Barbara Schmitz
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN :
Among the treasures of the Piermont Morgan Library there is a choice collection of Islamic and Indian material, including illustrated manuscripts, single miniatures, albums of paintings and calligraphies and bookbinding. Six sections cover Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Provincial Mughal and Indian arts, and albums.
Author : Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
ISBN : 0870994999
Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Alice Taylor
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 089236338X
In the seventeenth century, the Persian city of Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy. Manuscript paintings produced within the city’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic groups reveal the vibrant artistic legacy of the Safavid Empire. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum, Book Arts of Isfahan offers a fascinating account of the ways in which the artists of Isfahan used their art to record the life around them and at the same time define their own identities within a complex society.
Author : David J. Roxburgh
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300103250
This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to preserve and display art, yet they were conceptualized in different ways. David Roxburgh, a leading expert on Persian albums and the art of the book, discusses this diversity and demonstrates convincingly that to look at the practice of album making is to open a vista to a culture of thought about the Persian art tradition. The book considers the album’s formal and physical properties, assembly, and content, as well as the viewer’s experience. Focusing on seven albums created during the Timurid and Safavid dynasties, Roxburgh reconstructs the history and development of this codex form and uses the works of art to explore notions of how art and aesthetics were conceived in Persian court culture. Generously illustrated with over 175 images, many rare and previously unpublished, the book offers a range of new insights into Persian visual culture as well as Islamic art history.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Drawing
ISBN : 0870995642
Author : Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Art, Iranian
ISBN : 0870990284
Author : Rachel Federman
Publisher : Delmonico Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781636810386
""Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco legend," wrote author and artist Etel Adnan in a 1998 essay. Barton (American, 1928-1992) was born and raised in New York and settled in the Bay Area in the 1950s. Working primarily in pen or brush and ink, in a kaleidoscopic linear style, Barton ceaselessly recorded the world around him. His intricate sheets capture the intimate interiors and social spaces, lovers and friends, and architectural and botanical subjects that fascinated him. Bringing together more than sixty drawings, two accordion-folded sketchbooks, and printed books and portfolios, this catalogue presents the work of a significant and, until now, unheralded figure of the Beat era. Complementing the images are a deeply researched essay by Rachel Federman, curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, and an excerpt of Adnan's essay, the first and previously the only published account of Barton"--
Author : Anna Contadini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004236619
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.
Author : Wheeler McIntosh Thackston
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004119611
Persian text and English translation of the major texts of album prefaces, miscellaneous documents, and travel literature from the Timurid and Safavid periods.
Author : Adam Gacek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9047400844
Covering the entire spectrum of Arabic manuscripts, and especially the handwritten book, this book consists of a glossary of technical terms and a bibliography. The technical terms, collected from a variety of sources, embrace a vast range of topics dealing with the making and reading (studying) of Arabic manuscripts. They include: the Arabic scripts, penmanship, writing materials and implements, the make-up of the codex, copying and correction, decoration and bookbinding. A similar coverage is reflected in the bibliography. In view of the fact that, as yet, there is no concise monograph on Arabic manuscripts in the English language, this book is an important contribution to this field. And, since Arabic manuscripts represent an enormous resource for research, this work is an indispensable reference for all students of Islamic civilization.
