Arab Painting

Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72954-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 90, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 290 mm, Gewicht: 725 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Contadini, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Contadini, Ph.D. (1992) in Islamic Art, SOAS, London University, where she is Reader in Islamic Art. Her publications include Fatimid Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A, 1998) and numerous works on Islamic manuscripts, artefacts, and artistic exchanges between Europe and the Middle East.