Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-25961-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 270 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

Reihe: Muqarnas, Supplements

This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers.
Approaches to the study of these sources are examined, followed by an analysis of the sociohistorical court-centered context; the circumstances of the texts' composition, reception, and literary dimensions; and their art historical formation and content. It ends with an interpretation of calligrapher Dust Muhammad's preface and his conceptualization of a history and aesthetics of depiction.
The book is the first to study the prefaces collectively and in relationship to other cultural practices. It also draws on a wide variety of additional primary sources. It includes forty illustrations and several tables.

Autoren/Hrsg.

J. Roxburgh, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Iranische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PREFACES
CHAPTER TWO: THE AUTHORS AND THEIR MILIEU
CHAPER THREE: COMPOSITION AND CONTEXT
CHAPTER FOUR: LITERARY DIMENSIONS
CHAPTER FIVE: ART IN HISTORY AND PRACTICE
CHAPTER SIX: LIFTING THE VEIL FROM THE FACE OF DEPICTION: DUST MUHAMMAD’S PREFACE
CHAPTER SEVEN: EPILOGUE
APPENDIX 1. DESCRIPTION, LITERATURE, AND RECENSIONS
APPENDIX 2. PREFACES IN OTHER LITERARY GENRES
APPENDIX 3. MASTER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

David J. Roxburgh, Ph.D. (1996) in History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. He has published on arts of the book and albums, mainly form Iran and Central Asia.

David J. Roxburgh, Ph.D. (1996), University of Pennsylvania, is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History at Harvard University. His publications include Prefacing the Image (Brill, 2001) and The Persian Album (Yale University Press, 2005).