Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book

Studies in the Islamic Arts of the BookThis volume discusses Persian book painting (14th 16th centuries), its evolution, and its interpretations of the Shahnama in the context of contemporary politics. It explores the interplay between text and image, offering insights for specialists in Islamic art and book painting.

text examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames

This is the first English translation

He seeks to introduce Islam “from its original source

Graham Pechey

practices and infrastructures to the British empire from the 1750s through to the 1940s

highlighting the unique contribution of these artists to the genre of performance art

Part travelogue

It argues that the ‘comradely objects’ of Russian productivism were not just shabby copies of western commodities – they were agents of progressive social relations with a discernible inheritance from the 1920s avant-garde

Despite a shared familiarity with cultural and political institutions

and stars from antiquity to the 19th century

structure and language

Rosengarten unveils the political context of Portugal under Salazar