Persian Art
Subtitle: Image-Making in Eurasia, 600-1900
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781474411158
Subjects: Art, iranian
Description: "Explores the pictorial, material and technological richness of the Persian world. In this illustrated book, nine contributors explore multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and material culture of the Persian cultural realm, encompassing West Asia, Anatolia, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe. Each chapter examines the historical, religious or scientific role of visual culture in the shaping, influencing and transforming of distinctive 'Persian' aesthetics across the various historical periods, ranging from pre-Islamic, medieval and early modern Islamic to modern times"--