Arab painting : text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts / edited by Anna Contadini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Contadini, Anna.

Series:

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Erste Abteilung, 90. Bd.

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; v. 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab.

Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts--Arab countries.

Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Arab countries.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

[2nd rev. ed.].

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of appreciation in its own terms, and not as a mere precursor to Persian painting. The book assembles papers by a distinguished list of scholars that illuminate the variety of material that survives in scientific as well as literary manuscripts. Because of the contexts in which the paintings appear, a major theoretical concern is, precisely, the relationship of painting to text. It rejects earlier scholarly habits of analysing paintings in isolation, and proposes the integration of text and image as a more satisfactory framework within which to elucidate the characteristics and functions of this impressive body of work.

Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of appreciation in its own terms, and not as a mere precursor to Persian painting. The book assembles papers by a distinguished list of scholars that illuminate the variety of material that survives in scientific as well as literary manuscripts. Because of the contexts in which the paintings appear, a major theoretical concern is, precisely, the relationship of painting to text. It rejects earlier scholarly habits of analysing paintings in isolation, and proposes the integration of text and image as a more satisfactory framework within which to elucidate the characteristics and functions of this impressive body of work.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / A. Contadini

Introduction

The manuscript as a whole

What does ‘arab painting’ mean? / Oleg Grabar

Art in the name of science: The Kitāb al-Diryāq in text and image / Jaclynne J. Kerner

Text and illustrations. Dioscorides and the illustrated herbal in the arab tradition / Michael J. Rogers

Elusive giraffes: Ibn Abi L-Ḥawāfir’s BadāiʾIʿ Al-Akwān and other animal books / Remke Kruk

Mapping the mnemonic: A late thirteenth-century copy of Al-Ṣūfī’s book of the constellations / Moya Carey

From Iraq to Fars: Tracking cultural transformations in the 1322 QazwīnīʿAjāʾIb manuscript / Persis Berlekamp

The earliest islamic illustrated manuscript, the Maqāmāt and a graveyard at Suḥār at Suḥār, Oman / Geoffrey R. D. King

Love localized and science from Afar: ‘Arab painting,’ iberian courtly culture, And the Ḥadīth Bayāḍ Wa Riyāḍ (VAT. AR. RIS. 368) / Cynthia Robinson

The Schefer Ḍarīrī: A study in islamic frontispiece design / Robert Hillenbrand

The uses of captions in medieval literary arabic manuscripts / Bernard O’Kane

Anatomical illustration in arabic manuscripts / Emilie Savage-Smith

The ‘translation’ of diagrams and illustrations from arabic into latin / Charles Burnett

Introductory bibliography / A. Contadini

Illustrations / A. Contadini

Index / A. Contadini.

Notes:

Includes addenda and corrigenda.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-178) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-60140-7

9786612601408

90-04-23661-9

90-474-2237-6

OCLC:

705050666

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004186309.i-272 DOI