Main entry:

Roxburgh, David J.

Title & Author:

Prefacing the image : the writing of art history in sixteenth-century Iran / by David J. Roxburgh.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Description:

xviii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Series:

Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture, 0921-0326 ; v. 9

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
Priorities and Perceptions in the Study of Sixteenth-Century Persian Art Historiography 5 -- Approaches and Methods in Literary Study 15 -- 2. Authors and Their Milieu 18 -- Preface Authors 22 -- Historical and Cultural Milieu 37 -- Rise of Art Historiographic Literature 46 -- 3. Composition and Context 52 -- Composing the Preface, Making the Album 53 -- Contexts of Use 62 -- 4. Literary Dimensions 83 -- Organization and Sequence 88 -- Language 103 -- Recurring Themes and Images of the Album 107 -- Intertextuality and Literary Borrowings 115 -- 5. Art in History and Practice 122 -- Before the Preface: Biographical and Historical Works, and Treatises on Calligraphy 122 -- Album Preface: Writing Histories of Art 133 -- Practitioner's Place in the Tradition 145 -- Judgment and Response 150 -- 6. Lifting the Veil from the Face of Depiction: Dust Muhammad's Preface 160 -- Baysunghur and Amir Khalil: Patron and Painter 167 -- Chest of Witnessing 170 -- Mani's Artangi Tablet 174 -- Images, Revelation, Creativity 179 -- 1. Description, Literature, and Recensions 216 -- 2. Prefaces in Other Literary Genres 226 -- 3. Master-Student Relationships 230.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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." http://books.google.com/books?id=-8mpDcunylsC.

ISBN:

9004113762 (acid-free paper)
9789004113763 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Art, Safavid Historiography Sources.
Islamic art Iran Historiography Sources.
Art criticism Iran History Sources.
Art séfévide Historiographie.
Art islamique Iran Historiographie Sources.
Critique d'art Iran Histoire Sources.
Art séfévide Historiographie Sources.
Art criticism.
Islamic art Historiography.
Kunstgeschichtsschreibung
Miniaturen (handschriften)
Perzische handschriften.
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Enluminure Iran Historiographie 16e siècle.
Critique d'art Iran 16e siècle Histoire Sources.
Geschichte 1433-1565.
Art, Islamic Iran Historiography Sources.
Iran.

Form/genre:

History.
Sources.
Hochschulschrift.
Quelle.

Added entries:

Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture ; v. 9.

Writing of art history in sixteenth-century Iran

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218337
Call No.: N7283 .R6 2001
Status: Available