Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists

A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text about the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-17872-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 580 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1179 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

The earliest known Ottoman literary source about the lives and works of calligraphers, painters, limners, and book-binders of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds, Mustafa 'Âli’s (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictionary. Based on a comprehensive reading of the descriptive and analytic tools of 'Âli’s biographical writings as well as his passionately penned personal reflections on sixteenth-century attitudes toward art and artists, this critical edition by Esra Akin-Kivanç brings to the fore the significance of Epic Deeds not only as a guide to the connoisseurs and aficionados of the time, but also as a fascinating commentary by a prominent intellectual on the spiritual meaning and material value of art.

Zielgruppe

Those interested in written sources of art history, in the history of the arts of calligraphy and painting, in the cultural and art-historical past of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Akin, Esra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Andere Graphische Kunstformen

Über Autor(innen)

Esra Akin-Kivanç holds a doctorate (2007) in History of Art from Ohio State University. She has co-authored Sinan’s Autobiographies: Five Sixteenth-Century Texts (Brill, 2006), and is currently working on a compilation of pre-nineteenth-century Ottoman art-historical texts. She teaches Islamic Art and Architecture at Oberlin College.