A01=Yves Porter
Abu Al Fazl
AD=20200701
Author_Yves Porter
Book making art
Bookbinding
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AGA
Category=DS
Category=NL-AC
Category=NL-DS
COP=United Kingdom
De Genre
Discount=15
Dragon's Blood
Dragon’s Blood
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Firuz Shah
Flat Tints
Flax Seeds
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
Gold Beaters
Gum Arabic
HMM=216
IMPN=Routledge
Indo-lranian world
Iranian World
Iron Mould
ISBN13=9780367534943
Islamic paintings
Kalila Wa Dimna
Lamp Black
Language_English
Manohar Publishers
Manuscript Paintings
Marbled Paper
Mural Decoration
Mural painting
Muslim World
Naser Al Din Shah
PA=Not yet available
PD=20200701
Persian Painting
Persian texts
POP=London
Price_€100 to €200
PS=Forthcoming
PUB=Taylor & Francis Ltd
Reed Pen
Royal Workshops
Safflower Yellow
Shah Jahan
Shah Tahmasp
Subject=History Of Art/art & Design Styles
Subject=Literature: History & Criticism
WMM=138
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367534943
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The work aims at bringing the Persian texts into the study of the arts and technology of the Indo-lranian world – an approach much neglected so far. Drawing upon Persian sources (both from Iran and India), viz., technical treatises, historical chronicles and poetical texts, the work deals with painting and the art of book making during twelfth to nineteenth century.
The introduction presents the geographical and chronological dimensions of the study. After a brief history of Persian painting before the twelfth century, the book discusses mural painting, manuscripts, origin of paper and its fabrication, the composition of the page, colours/pigments used in the paintings, painting subjects, bookbinding, etc. The painter, man and artist, his origin, his training, his status, aesthetics and taste, his workshop and its organisation and distribution of tasks therein, modular construction of the manuscripts, library, the caligraphy surrounding the painting, its illuminations and binding are all analysed. In fact the book reconstructs the entire process of making an illustrated manuscript from its ground work to its binding. Persian text and illustrations enhance the utility of the work.
Yves Porter, a specialist on arts and techniques in the Iranian world and Islamized India was born in Barcelona in 1957. After studying Oriental Languages (Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Pashtu, Hindi) at INALCO, Paris, he obtained his Ph D at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris in 1988 in Iranian Studies. In 2000, he passed his ‘Habilitation à diriger des Recherches’ (HdR, Paris IV University).
Since 1993, he teaches Islamic Art at Aix Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence (AMU, Department of Art History). He is attached to the Laboratoire d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne Médiévale et Moderne (LA3M), CNRS/AMU. Since October 2018, he is also part of the Institut Universitaire de France, with a project on ‘Kashan Luster Ware’.
