Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi'ism in Iran, 1487-1565
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TextSeries: Publication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781474450416
- DS292 .A783 2019
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487-1565; Edinburgh University Press; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting; 1 Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language; 2 Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid Manuscript; 3 The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: 'The Bearded Man Drowning'; 4 Fixed-figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order; 5 The Culmination of a Trend: 'Depraved Man Commits Bestiality'; Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Transforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world's most exquisite medieval paintings.
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