UID:
almahu_9949704061202882
Format:
1 online resource.
Edition:
[2nd rev. ed.].
ISBN:
9789004236615
Series Statement:
Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, v. 90
Content:
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.
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes addenda and corrigenda.
,
Preliminary Material /
,
Introduction --
,
The manuscript as a whole --
,
What does 'arab painting' mean? /
,
Art in the name of science: The Kitāb al-Diryāq in text and image /
,
Text and illustrations. Dioscorides and the illustrated herbal in the arab tradition /
,
Elusive giraffes: Ibn Abi L-Ḥawāfir's BadāiʾIʿ Al-Akwān and other animal books /
,
Mapping the mnemonic: A late thirteenth-century copy of Al-Ṣūfī's book of the constellations /
,
From Iraq to Fars: Tracking cultural transformations in the 1322 QazwīnīʿAjāʾIb manuscript /
,
The earliest islamic illustrated manuscript, the Maqāmāt and a graveyard at Suḥār at Suḥār, Oman /
,
Love localized and science from Afar: 'Arab painting,' iberian courtly culture, And the Ḥadīth Bayāḍ Wa Riyāḍ (VAT. AR. RIS. 368) /
,
The Schefer Ḍarīrī: A study in islamic frontispiece design /
,
The uses of captions in medieval literary arabic manuscripts /
,
Anatomical illustration in arabic manuscripts /
,
The 'translation' of diagrams and illustrations from arabic into latin /
,
Introductory bibliography /
,
Illustrations /
,
Index /
,
Preliminary Material /
,
Introduction --
,
The manuscript as a whole --
,
What does 'arab painting' mean? /
,
Art in the name of science: The Kitāb al-Diryāq in text and image /
,
Text and illustrations. Dioscorides and the illustrated herbal in the arab tradition /
,
Elusive giraffes: Ibn Abi L-Ḥawāfir's BadāiʾIʿ Al-Akwān and other animal books /
,
Mapping the mnemonic: A late thirteenth-century copy of Al-Ṣūfī's book of the constellations /
,
From Iraq to Fars: Tracking cultural transformations in the 1322 QazwīnīʿAjāʾIb manuscript /
,
The earliest islamic illustrated manuscript, the Maqāmāt and a graveyard at Suḥār at Suḥār, Oman /
,
Love localized and science from Afar: 'Arab painting,' iberian courtly culture, And the Ḥadīth Bayāḍ Wa Riyāḍ (VAT. AR. RIS. 368) /
,
The Schefer Ḍarīrī: A study in islamic frontispiece design /
,
The uses of captions in medieval literary arabic manuscripts /
,
Anatomical illustration in arabic manuscripts /
,
The 'translation' of diagrams and illustrations from arabic into latin /
,
Introductory bibliography /
,
Illustrations /
,
Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2010, ISBN 9789004186309
Language:
English
