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Author Firat, Begüm Özden, author

Title Encounters with the Ottoman miniature : contemporary readings of an imperial art / Begüm Özden Firat
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations
Series International library of visual culture ; 11
International library of visual culture ; 11.
Contents Reading in detail : Adam and Eve in close-up -- The intimate look : seeing, touching, and gazing at the female body -- Double encounters : the circumcision parade in intervals -- Portrait of a sultan : ornamentation at work -- The miniature, the horizontal, and the symptom -- Looking through metaphors : from the window toward the threshold
Summary 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. In a close reading of a variety of miniatures, Firat re-examines these historical images as objects of encounter which can teach us how to think, speak and writer about society and art in the present day
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Islamic miniature painting -- Turkey -- History
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Turkey -- History
History of art / art & design styles.
ART -- Techniques -- General.
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
Islamic miniature painting
Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0857725998
9780857725998
9781780763910
1780763913