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The Indian Heritage : Court Life and Arts under Mughal Rule
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ISBN: 0905209206 Year: 1982 Publisher: Londen


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Affect, emotion, and subjectivity in early modern Muslim Empires
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ISBN: 9004352848 9789004352841 9789004340473 9004340475 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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Affect, Emotion and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires presents new approaches to Ottoman Safavid and Mughal art and culture. Taking artistic agency as a starting point, the authors consider the rise in status of architects, the self-fashioning of artists, the development of public spaces, as well as new literary genres that focus on the individual subject and his or her place in the world. They consider the issue of affect as performative and responsive to certain emotions and actions, thus allowing insights into the motivations behind the making and, in some cases, the destruction of works of art. The interconnected histories of Iran,Turkey and India thus highlight the urban and intellectual changes that defined the early modern period. Contributors are: Sussan Babaie, Chanchal Dadlani, Jamal Elias, Emine Fetvaci, Christiane Gruber, Sylvia Hougteling, Kishwar Rizvi, Sunil Sharma, and Marianna Shreve Simpson.


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Affect, emotion, and subjectivity in early modern Muslim Empires : new studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal art and culture
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ISBN: 9789004340473 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Affect, Emotion and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires presents new approaches to Ottoman Safavid and Mughal art and culture. Taking artistic agency as a starting point, the authors consider the rise in status of architects, the self-fashioning of artists, the development of public spaces, as well as new literary genres that focus on the individual subject and his or her place in the world. They consider the issue of affect as performative and responsive to certain emotions and actions, thus allowing insights into the motivations behind the making and, in some cases, the destruction of works of art. The interconnected histories of Iran, Turkey and India thus highlight the urban and intellectual changes that defined the early modern period.


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Romance of the Taj Mahal
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ISBN: 0500235562 9780500235560 Year: 1989 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Thames and Hudson

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The Taj Mahal is the masterpiece of Mughal art and one of the most famous buildings in the world. Yet until now, there has been no full analysis of its architecture and meaning. The lost world of the Agra gardens and the greatest monument to love ever built, are recreated here through superb scholarship and evocative illustrations. Ebba Koch has been working on the palaces and gardens of Shah Jahan for thirty years, and on the Taj Mahal itself – the tomb of the emperor’s wife, Mumtaz Mahal – for a decade. Here, in hundreds of new photographs and drawings, she provides the first detailed documentation ever published on every building in the vast complex. She leads the reader on a walk that illuminates not only the white marble mausoleum but the mosque and guesthouse that flank it, through the entire complex of the Taj Mahal, with an explanation of each building, revealing not only the mausoleum but the mosque and guest house that flank it, the garden, the great gate, the forecourt, the quarters of the tomb attendants and the now almost completely lost bazaar and caravanserai complex. She gives special attention to the floral ornamentation – both the famous pietre dure inlay in white marble and the rich relief carving in marble and red sandstone. Reconstructions allow us to see the monument in the context of Shah Jahan’s Agra, and the author explains its design and construction, its symbolic meaning and its history up to the present day.

Miniatures de l'Inde impériale : les peintres de la cour d'Akbar (1556-1605) : Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, 27 avril-10 juillet 1989
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ISBN: 2711822419 9782711822416 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris : Ministère de la culture, de la communication, des grands travaux et du bicentenaire, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux,

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