Name: Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy: History, Theory, and Aesthetics (en Inglés)
SKU: 53134960
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Author: Akin-Kivanc, Esra
ISBN: 9780253049216

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Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy: History, Theory, and Aesthetics (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Esra Akin-Kivanc

Editorial

Indiana University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

25.1x17.8x2 cm

Peso

0.77 kg.

ISBN13

9780253049216

Categorías

Artes: técnicas y principios artísticos
Detalles, componentes y motivos arquitectónicos
Arquitectura: edificios religiosos
Rotulación y caligrafía

Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy: History, Theory, and Aesthetics (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy: History, Theory, and Aesthetics (en Inglés)"

Muthanna, also known as mirror writing, is a compelling style of Islamic calligraphy composed of a source text and its mirror image placed symmetrically on a horizontal or vertical axis. This style elaborates on various scripts such as Kufic, naskh, and muhaqqaq through compositional arrangements, including doubling, superimposing, and stacking. Muthanna is found in diverse media, ranging from architecture, textiles, and tiles to paper, metalwork, and woodwork. Yet despite its centuries-old history and popularity in countries from Iran to Spain, scholarship on the form has remained limited and flawed. Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy provides a comprehensive study of the text and its forms, beginning with an explanation of the visual principles and techniques used in its creation. Author Esra Akın-Kıvanc explores muthanna's relationship to similar forms of writing in Judaic and Christian contexts, as well as the specifically Islamic contexts within which symmetrically mirrored compositions reached full fruition, were assigned new meanings, and transformed into more complex visual forms. Throughout, Akın-Kıvanc imaginatively plays on the implicit relationship between subject and object in muthanna by examining the point of view of the artist, the viewer, and the work of art. In doing so, this study elaborates on the vital links between outward form and inner meaning in Islamic calligraphy.