Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language
Poetics of the Picture: Verbal Imagery and Visual Language
Due to the programmatic dependence of the Persianate figural arts on narrative literature this chapter contextualizes the art of book illustration at the late Timurid court in Herat by considering the essential history and development of Sufi discourse and the tradition of Persian poetry in which it was largely anchored. The development of Persian verse and its dense use of imagery, word-play and illustrative tales, make it central to any assessment of the common repository of ideas, forms, symbols and structures that permeated the iconography of Persian manuscript painting in the late fifteenth century.
Keywords: discourse, symbols, Persian poetry, Sufism, imagery, word-play, illustrative tales
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