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Painters, Paintings and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries book cover

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Painters, Paintings and Books An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries

By Yves Porter Copyright 2021
278 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction; PART ONE: Techniques of Painting and Arts of the Book 2. The ground  3. Decorated papers 4. Layout and composition 5. Painting 5. Subjects of the paintings 7.  Binding and special operations 8. Mural painting and ceramics: A parallel; PART TWO: The Painter, the Workshop, the Library 9. Introduction: The painter and literature 10. The artist 11. The workshop, its operation and division of work 12. The library 13. Conclusion
Annexe 1: Pigments used in pre-Islamic sites
Annexe 2: Persian texts

Biography

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’.

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