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Author : Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
ISBN : 9780870994999
Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Stuart Cary Welch,Marie Lukens Swietochowski,Wheeler McIntosh Thackston
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300086016
An examination of fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's great assemblages of Mughal art.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:429605214
Author : Elaine Julia Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Calligraphy, Mogul
ISBN : 0883971542
A fascinating study of some of the most remarkable of all albums ever created
Author : Supriya Gandhi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674987296
Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is lionized in South Asia, while Aurangzeb, who presided over the beginnings of imperial disintegration, is scorned. Supriya Gandhi’s nuanced biography asks whether the story really would have been different with Dara in power.
Author : Wheeler McIntosh Thackston
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004119612
Persian text and English translation of the major texts of album prefaces, miscellaneous documents, and travel literature from the Timurid and Safavid periods.
Author : Blair Sheila Blair
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474464475
Joint Winner of the 2007 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize for Middle Eastern StudiesThis stunning book is an important contribution to a key area of non-western art, being the first reference work on the art of beautiful writing in Arabic script.The extensive use of writing is a hallmark of Islamic civilization. Calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing, became one of the main methods of artistic expression from the seventh century to the present in almost all regions from the far Maghrib, or Islamic West, to India and beyond. Arabic script was adopted for other languages from Persian and Turkish to Kanembu and Malay. Sheila S. Blair's groundbreaking book explains this art form to modern readers and shows them how to identify, understand and appreciate its varied styles and modes. The book is designed to offer a standardized terminology for identifying and describing various styles of Islamic calligraphy and to help Westerners appreciate why calligraphy has long been so important in Islamic civilization.The argument is enhanced by the inclusion of more than 150 colour illustrations, as well as over a hundred black-and-white details that highlight the salient features of the individual scripts and hands. Examples are chosen from dated or datable examples with secure provenance, for the problem of forgeries and copies (both medieval and modern) is rampant. The illustrations are accompanied by detailed analyses telling the reader what to look for in determining both style and quality of script.This beautiful new book is an ideal reference for anyone with an interest in Islamic art.Key Features* Written by the world's leading expert on Islamic calligraphy* Includes c.150 colour illustrations* Comprehensive: covers the art of calligraphy throughout Islamic civilisation, from the 7thc. to the present* The first volume to explain this art form to modern readers, guiding them in the identification, understanding and appreciation of its varied style
Author : Rosemary Crill,Kapil Jariwala
Publisher : Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Portrait painting, Indic
ISBN : 8189995375
The role of the portrait in India between 1560 and 1860 served as an official chronicle or eye-witness account, as a means of revealing the intimate moments of everyday life, and as a tool for propaganda. Yet the proliferation and mastery of Indian portraiture in the Mughal and Rajput courts brought a new level of artistry and style to the genre.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Maryam Ekhtiar
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588394347
This book explores the great diversity and range of Islamic culture through one of the finest collections in the world. Published to coincide with the historic reopening of the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum's Islamic Art Department, it presents nearly three hundred masterworks created in the rich tradition of the Islamic faith and culture. The Metropolitan's renowned holdings range chronologically from the origins of Islam in the 7th century through the 19th century, and geographically from as far west as Spain to as far east as Southeast Asia.
Author : Julia K. Murray
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824863647
Mirror of Morality takes an interdisciplinary look at an important form of pictorial art produced during two millennia of Chinese imperial rule. Ideas about individual morality and state ideology were based on the ancient teachings of Confucius with modifications by later interpreters and government institutions. Throughout the imperial period, members of the elite made, sponsored, and inscribed or used illustrations of themes taken from history, literature, and recent events to promote desired conduct among various social groups. This dimension of Chinese art history has never before been broadly covered or investigated in historical context. The first half of the study examines the nature of narrative illustration in China and traces the evolution of its functions, conventions, and rhetorical strategies from the second century BCE through the eleventh century. Under the stimulus of Buddhism, sophisticated techniques developed for representing stories in visual form. While tracing changes in the social functions and cultural positions of narrative illustration, the second half of the book argues that narrative illustration continued to play a vital role in elite visual culture.
Author : Milo Cleveland Beach
Publisher : Mapin
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1935677160
Books have been treasured for centuries in the Islamic world, as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true in Muslim India, where generations of Mughal emperors commissioned and collected volumes of richly illuminated manuscripts and lavishly illustrated folios. They assembled workshops of the leading artists and calligraphers to produce the books that filled their extensive libraries. Today, those works remain a vibrant part of India's cultural and artistic history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this revised and expanded edition of his popular 1981 book, Dr Milo Beach presents the superb collection of Mughal painting in the Freer Gallery of Art. He adds many of the outstanding works that entered the collection with the opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1987. Together, the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian's museums of Asian art, have the distinction of being one of the world's leading repositories of Mughal art. An introductory essay examines the Mughal art of the book and traces the contributions of a succession of rulers in Muslim India. Brief artist biographies and an extensive bibliography complete this updated volume.
Author : Stuart Cary Welch,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art, Indic
ISBN : 9780030061141
A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.
Author : Arthur E. Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520344938
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Author : Zhiliang Na
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : China
ISBN : UCSD:31822025763988
Author : Kathryn Calley Galitz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397645
Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. This intimate genre sheds light on the subjects’ and makers’ politics, relationships, aspirations, and insecurities. Featuring more than fifty works across time and cultures, from the lifelike Faiyum funerary masks of ancient Roman Egypt to Pablo Picasso’s and Marsden Hartley’s abstractions to likenesses imagined by contemporary artists, this publication probes the notion of what constitutes a portrait, beyond mere verisimilitude. Bestselling author Kathryn Calley Galitz illuminates how artists through the ages have exploited the genre to reveal character and convey power and status; how artists as varied as Rembrandt and Cindy Sherman embraced artifice and roleplaying to explore identity; and how the term “portraiture” encompasses a wider variety of works than typically thought. This reexamination of a deceptively familiar genre provides fascinating ideas about what these images can tell us about the sitter, the artist, the culture in which they lived, and ourselves.