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Encounters with the Ottoman miniature : contemporary readings of an imperial art /

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 thes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Firat, Begüm Özden (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
Colección:International library of visual culture ; 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.