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Autore |
Firat Begüm Özden |
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Titolo |
Encounters with the Ottoman miniature : contemporary readings of an imperial art / / Begüm Özden Firat |
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London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-7556-0799-6 |
0-85772-599-8 |
0-85773-943-3 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts - Turkey - History |
Islamic miniature painting - Turkey - History |
History of art / art & design styles |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Chapter 1: Reading in Detail: Adam and Eve in Close-up -- Chapter 2: The Intimate Look: Seeing, Touching, and Gazing at the Female Body -- Chapter 3: Double Encounters: The Circumcision Parade in Intervals Visualizing an Imperial Festival -- Chapter 4: Portrait of a Sultan: Ornamentation at Work Sultan Ahmed III Enthroned -- Chapter 5: The Miniature, The Horizontal, and The Symptom -- Chapter 6: Looking through Metaphors: From the Window toward the Threshold -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"The dominant form of Ottoman pictorial art until the eighteenth century, miniatures have traditionally been studied as reflecting the socio-historical contexts, aesthetic concerns and artistic tastes of the era within which they were produced. Begum Ozden Fyrat proposes instead a radical re-reading of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century miniatures in the light of contemporary critical theory, highlighting the viewer's encounter with the image. Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature employs contemporary concepts such as the gaze, frame/framing, reading and re-reading, drawing on thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze to establish the vibrant cultural agency of miniature paintings. With analysis that |
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