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The making of the artist in late Timurid painting
- Title
- The making of the artist in late Timurid painting / Lamia Balafrej.
- Author
- Balafrej, Lamia
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 260 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter's delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist's likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used a number of strategies to shift manuscript painting from an illustrative device to a self-reflective object, designed to highlight the artist's imagination and manual dexterity. These strategies include visual abundance, linear precision, the incorporation of inscriptions addressing aspects of the painting and the artist's signature. Focusing on one of the most iconic manuscripts of the Persianate tradition, the Cairo Bustan, made in late Timurid Herat and bearing the signatures of the painter Bihzad, this book argues that Bihzad's paintings defined authorship as making: at once an imaginative process and a manual endeavour."--Book jacket.
- Series Statement
- Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
- Uniform Title
- Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-247) and index.
- Call Number
- JQF 19-1072
- ISBN
- 1474437435
- 9781474437431
- OCLC
- 1039932134
- Author
- Balafrej, Lamia, author.
- Title
- The making of the artist in late Timurid painting / Lamia Balafrej.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Edinburgh studies in Islamic artEdinburgh studies in Islamic art.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-247) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 19-1072