Images of Thought
：Visuality in Islamic India 1550-1750
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Publication subTitle ：Visuality in Islamic India 1550-1750
Publication series ：None
Author： Gregory Minissale
Publisher： Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication year： 2009
E-ISBN: 9781443807319
Subject： J1 Overview of World Art
Keyword： Fine Arts
Language： ENG
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Description
With many illustrations and diagrams, Images of Thought provides easy to follow ways in which to read Indian, Persian and European paintings in terms of composition, proportion, colour symbolism and references to myth. Yet it also provides the intellectual contexts of Islamic cultures which inform our perceptions of how this visual language works. The author uses salient aspects of critical theory, anthropology and theology to sensitise viewers to the diversity and difference of cultural readings but never loses sight of the primacy of the visual and formal characteristics, gestures, geometrical structures and their cooperation with myths and theologemes. The book provides access to one of the world’s major visual traditions whose characteristics continue to inform and elucidate Indian and Islamic contemporary thought today. Images of Thought is a major, scholarly and provocative contribution not only to our understanding of cultural individuality but it offers important examples of how to engage in transcultural understanding and ways of seeing.
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