Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art : Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art - Sheila S. Blair

Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art

By: Sheila S. Blair

Paperback | 31 January 2019

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Focusing on 5 objects found in the main media at the time - ceramics, metalware, painting, architecture and textiles - Sheila S. Blair shows how artisans played with form, material and decoration to engage their audiences. She also shows how the reception of these objects has changed and that their present context has implications for our understanding of the past. Greater Iranian arts from the 10th to the 16th century are technically some of the finest produced anywhere. They are also intellectually engaging, showing the lively interaction between the verbal and the visual arts.

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Beautifully produced and extensively illustrated.--D.H. KENNETT "British Brick Society Information"
Sheila Blair is an acknowledged world authority on epigraphy and this book is a scrutiny of five specific examples, arranged chronologically.--Jane Jakeman "The Art Newspaper"
This splendid new book by one of the leading scholars of Islamic art manages that most difficult task--making a serious contribution to scholarship while being accessible to a wide range of readers and attractive to them. It is not a survey but five case studies: a 10th-century ceramic bowl, a 12th-century copper alloy rosewater sprinkler, a 14th-century tomb, a 15th-century manuscript painting, and a 16th-century carpet. Blair (Boston College; Virginia Commonwealth Univ.) beautifully describes and analyzes each in its immediate and its broadest historical context. Each object works like a pebble thrown into water, producing expanding circles of related objects, people involved in its manufacture and commission, and later works in its tradition or directly reflecting it in some way. The stories are diverse but fascinating and often end with consideration of the works in today's world. The writing is clear and accessible. Scholars will appreciate the many new insights and remarkably rich and current bibliography. The many illustrations, most in color, are of splendid quality. Individual chapters or the book as a whole would be suitable for use in college courses.'--L. Nees, University of Delaware "CHOICE"

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