Arab painting : text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts /

Arab painting : text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Series:	Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 90 Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 90 Bd.
Subject:	Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab. Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Arab countries. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Arab countries. Manuscripts, Arabic. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts. Manuscripts, Arabic. Arab countries. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206403

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Other authors / contributors:	Contadini, Anna, editor.
ISBN:	9789047422372 9047422376 1282601407 9781282601406 9789004157224 9004157220
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 11th 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."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Arab painting. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 9789004157224
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004157224.i-272

Table of Contents:

Theoretical issues
Scientific manuscripts
Literary manuscripts
The European connection.