Encounters with the Ottoman miniature : contemporary readings of an imperial art / Begüm Özden Firat.

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Firat, Begüm Özden [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: International library of visual culture ; 11.Publication details: London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0857725998
9780857725998
9781780763910
1780763913

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

751.7/7 23

LOC classification:

ND3211 .F57 2015eb

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Contents:

Reading in detail : Adam and Eve in close-up -- The intimate look : seeing, touching, and gazing at the female body -- Double encounters : the circumcision parade in intervals -- Portrait of a sultan : ornamentation at work -- The miniature, the horizontal, and the symptom -- Looking through metaphors : from the window toward the threshold.

Summary: Employs contemporary concepts such as the gaze, frame-framing, reading and re-reading, drawing on thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze to establish the vibrant cultural agency of miniature paintings. In a close reading of a variety of miniatures, Firat re-examines these historical images as objects of encounter which can teach us how to think, speak and writer about society and art in the present day.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.

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Employs contemporary concepts such as the gaze, frame-framing, reading and re-reading, drawing on thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze to establish the vibrant cultural agency of miniature paintings. In a close reading of a variety of miniatures, Firat re-examines these historical images as objects of encounter which can teach us how to think, speak and writer about society and art in the present day.

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