Text and Image in Persian Art: From the Samanids to the Safavids (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art) - Hardcover

Blair, Sheila

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748655786 ISBN 13: 9780748655786

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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. Focusing on objects found in the main media at the time, 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.

About this title

About the Author

Sheila S. Blair is Norma Jean Calderwood Chair of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Review

"Sheila Blair is an acknowledged world authority on epigraphy and this book is a scrutiny of five specific examples, arranged chronologically." - 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 ... Individual chapters or the book as a whole would be suitable for use in college courses.' -- L. Nees, (University of Delaware) CHOICE

"Beautifully produced and extensively illustrated." -- D.H. KENNETT, British Brick Society Information

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0748655786
• ISBN 13: 9780748655786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304