The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting

Lamia Balafrej (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3744-8 (ISBN)

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In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter’s delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist’s likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used a number of strategies to shift manuscript painting from an illustrative device to a self-reflective object, designed to highlight the artist’s imagination and manual dexterity. These strategies include visual abundance, linear precision, the incorporation of inscriptions addressing aspects of the painting and the artist’s signature. Focusing on one of the most iconic manuscripts of the Persianate tradition, the Cairo Bustan made in late Timurid Herat and bearing the signatures of the painter Bihzad, this book explores Persian manuscript painting as a medium for artistic performance and self-representation, a process by which artistic authority was shaped and discussed.

Lamia Balafrej is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Introduction: Painting about Painting

1. Pictorial Preface

2. Writing on the Image

3. Potential World

4. Calligraphic Line

5. Wondrous Signature

Epilogue: Manuscripts in Motion

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Zusatzinfo	74 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
ISBN-10	1-4744-3744-3 / 1474437443
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3744-8 / 9781474437448
Zustand	Neuware