Yves Porter

Painters, Paintings and Books (eBook, ePUB)

An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon Persian sources (both from Iran and India), viz., technical treatises, historical chronicles and poetical texts, the work deals with painting and the art of book making during twelfth to nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000164701
• Artikelnr.: 68424196

Autorenporträt

Yves Porter, a specialist on arts and techniques in the Iranian world and Islamized India was born in Barcelona in 1957. After studying Oriental Languages (Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Pashtu, Hindi) at INALCO, Paris, he obtained his Ph D at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris in 1988 in Iranian Studies. In 2000, he passed his 'Habilitation à diriger des Recherches' (HdR, Paris IV University).
Since 1993, he teaches Islamic Art at Aix Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence (AMU, Department of Art History). He is attached to the Laboratoire d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne Médiévale et Moderne (LA3M), CNRS/AMU. Since October 2018, he is also part of the Institut Universitaire de France, with a project on 'Kashan Luster Ware'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; PART ONE: Techniques of Painting and Arts of the Book 2.
The ground 3. Decorated papers 4. Layout and composition 5. Painting 5.
Subjects of the paintings 7. Binding and special operations 8. Mural
painting and ceramics: A parallel; PART TWO: The Painter, the Workshop, the
Library 9. Introduction: The painter and literature 10. The artist 11. The
workshop, its operation and division of work 12. The library 13. Conclusion
Annexe 1: Pigments used in pre-Islamic sites
Annexe 2: Persian texts