Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists

A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text about the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World

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580 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The earliest known Ottoman literary source about the lives and works of calligraphers, painters, limners, and book-binders of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds, Mustafa ʿÂli's (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictionary. Based on a comprehensive reading of the descriptive and analytic tools of ʿÂli's biographical writings as well as his passionately penned personal reflections on sixteenth-century attitudes toward art and artists, this critical edition by Esra Akın-Kıvanç brings to the fore the significance of Epic Deeds not only as a guide to the connoisseurs and aficionados of the time, but also as a fascinating commentary by a prominent intellectual on the spiritual meaning and material value of art.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
• ISBN: 9789004178724
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.08.2011
• Größe: 246 x 168 mm
• Verlag: Brill