Shahnameh
The Epic of the Persian Kings [Illustrated Slipcase Edition]
Seiten
2017
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Illustrated Edition, Slipcased
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-63149-446-8 (ISBN)
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-63149-446-8 (ISBN)
This new edition of the thousand-year-old classic work by Ferdowsi, one of Persia's greatest poets, is a prose translation of the national epic. It is fully illuminated with over 500 pages of lavish illustrations.
Like other great epics, Shahnameh is a chronicle of the human imaginative consciousness. It tells the long history of the Persian people beginning with the creation of the world and the origin myths of civilization and ending with the Arab conquest of Iran in the seventh century. A mix of myth, epic tales, and history, Shahnameh takes the reader on heroic adventures filled with superhuman champions, magical creatures, heart-wrenching love stories, and centuries-long battles.
"The illustrations of this Shahnameh, while totally dependent on the art of the past, most closely evoke the fantasy literature of today in visual form. Thanks to the dramatic dynamism of Ferdowsi's epic, its contemporary interpretation in images is a vibrant feast for the imagination, making this a Shahnameh for the digital age." —Sheila Canby, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Like other great epics, Shahnameh is a chronicle of the human imaginative consciousness. It tells the long history of the Persian people beginning with the creation of the world and the origin myths of civilization and ending with the Arab conquest of Iran in the seventh century. A mix of myth, epic tales, and history, Shahnameh takes the reader on heroic adventures filled with superhuman champions, magical creatures, heart-wrenching love stories, and centuries-long battles.
"The illustrations of this Shahnameh, while totally dependent on the art of the past, most closely evoke the fantasy literature of today in visual form. Thanks to the dramatic dynamism of Ferdowsi's epic, its contemporary interpretation in images is a vibrant feast for the imagination, making this a Shahnameh for the digital age." —Sheila Canby, Metropolitan Museum of Art
An Iranian sociologist and translator, Ahmad Sadri is a professor of Islamic world studies, sociology, and anthropology at Lake Forest College, and lives in Illinois. Hamid Rahmanian is a John Guggenheim Fellow and multidisciplinary artist based in New York.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2017 |
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| Illustrationen | Hamid Rahmanian |
| Übersetzer | Ahmad Sadri |
| Vorwort | Sheila Canby |
| Zusatzinfo | 500 + full-color illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 224 x 371 mm |
| Gewicht | 3005 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-63149-446-5 / 1631494465 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-63149-446-8 / 9781631494468 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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