Encounters with the Ottoman miniature : contemporary readings of an imperial art / / Begüm Özden Firat

• Autore: Firat Begüm Özden
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2015
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 745.670943
• Soggetto topico: Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts - Turkey - History; Islamic miniature painting - Turkey - History; History of art / art & design styles
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 illuminates both the social and political situations in which these miniatures were painted as well as emphasising the miniature's contemporary relevance, Firat presents an important new re-imagining of this art form--Bloomsbury Publishing."
• Titolo autorizzato: Encounters with the Ottoman miniature
• ISBN: 0-7556-0799-6; 0-85772-599-8; 0-85773-943-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819466103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II