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Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting
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Chad Kia
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Plates vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting 1
- 1. Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language 21
- 2. Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid Manuscript 47
- 3. The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: ‘The Bearded Man Drowning’ 75
- 4. Fixed-figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order 103
- 5. The Culmination of a Trend: ‘Depraved Man Commits Bestiality’ 135 Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis 135
- Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis 168
- Notes 172
- Bibliography 235
- Index 288
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Plates vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction: Coming to Terms with Meaning in Persian Painting 1
- 1. Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language 21
- 2. Remaking Persian Painting: Didactic Sufism in a Timurid Manuscript 47
- 3. The Third Station on the Path to Sufism: ‘The Bearded Man Drowning’ 75
- 4. Fixed-figure Prototypes and the Symbolic Order 103
- 5. The Culmination of a Trend: ‘Depraved Man Commits Bestiality’ 135 Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis 135
- Conclusion: The Sufi Synthesis 168
- Notes 172
- Bibliography 235
- Index 288
