Prefacing the Image - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prefacing the Image write by David J. Roxburgh. This book was released on 2001. Prefacing the Image available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Readership: All those interested in the history and theory of art, and histories of Persian literature and culture in the premodern Islamic world."--BOOK JACKET.
Dynamis of the Image
Dynamis of the Image - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dynamis of the Image write by Emmanuel Alloa. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Dynamis of the Image available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Images are not neutral conveyors of messages shipped around the globe to achieve globalized spectatorship. They are powerful forces that elicit very diverse responses and can resist new visual hegemonies of our global world. Bringing together case studies from the field of media, art, politics, religion, anthropology and science, this volume breaks new ground by reflecting on the very power of images beyond their medial exploitation. The contributions by Hans Belting, Susan Buck-Morss, Georges Didi-Huberman, W.J.T. Mitchell, and Ticio Escobar among others testify that globalization does not necessarily equal homogenization, and that images can open up alternative ways of picturing what is to come.
Images of Thought
Images of Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images of Thought write by Celina Jeffery. This book was released on 2009-03-26. Images of Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With many illustrations and diagrams, Images of Thought provides easy to follow ways in which to read Indian, Persian and European paintings in terms of composition, proportion, colour symbolism and references to myth. Yet it also provides the intellectual contexts of Islamic cultures which inform our perceptions of how this visual language works. The author uses salient aspects of critical theory, anthropology and theology to sensitise viewers to the diversity and difference of cultural readings but never loses sight of the primacy of the visual and formal characteristics, gestures, geometrical structures and their cooperation with myths and theologemes. The book provides access to one of the world’s major visual traditions whose characteristics continue to inform and elucidate Indian and Islamic contemporary thought today. Images of Thought is a major, scholarly and provocative contribution not only to our understanding of cultural individuality but it offers important examples of how to engage in transcultural understanding and ways of seeing.
Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture
Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture write by Gülru Neci̇poğlu. This book was released on 2008. Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Muqarnas" is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In "Muqarnas" articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.
Gifts in the Age of Empire
Gifts in the Age of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gifts in the Age of Empire write by Sinem Arcak Casale. This book was released on 2023-08-21. Gifts in the Age of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the Safavid and Ottoman empires through the lens of gifts. When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman Empire to align itself definitively with Sunni legalism. The political, religious, and military conflicts that arose have since been widely studied, but little attention has been paid to their diplomatic relationship. Sinem Arcak Casale here sets out to explore these two major Muslim empires through a surprising lens: gifts. Countless treasures—such as intricate carpets, gilded silver cups, and ivory-tusk knives—flowed from the Safavid to the Ottoman Empire throughout the sixteenth century. While only a handful now survive, records of these gifts exist in court chronicles, treasury records, poems, epistolary documents, ambassadorial reports, and travel narratives. Tracing this elaborate archive, Casale treats gifts as representative of the complicated Ottoman-Safavid coexistence, demonstrating how their rivalry was shaped as much by culture and aesthetics as it was by religious or military conflict. Gifts in the Age of Empire explores how gifts were no mere accessories to diplomacy but functioned as a mechanism of competitive interaction between these early modern Muslim courts.
