Bücher von Lorenz Korn

For the cultural history of the Islamic World, writing has long been recognized as a highly important form of art, as calligraphy has traditionally held a particular place in the perception of Islamic elites and their artistic practices. The culture of calligraphy was intimately connected with the production of prestigious book manuscripts, but reached a climax in the creation of single-leaf calligraphies that were also highly appreciated by collectors in centres of Islamic culture from the Ottoman Mediterranean to post-Timurid Central Asia, Safavid Iran and Mughal India. At the same time, writing by its very nature fulfilled its age-old functions of encoding verbal language as text.The present volume approaches the variegated aspects of writing, fathoming its ambiguous character between text and image. It contains ten contributions that originated from a conference held at the University of Bamberg in 2019. These studies range from text-image relations in precious manuscripts through the use of Chinese decorated paper for artistic book production, the training of calligraphers and the process of design, to the iconic character of writing in the layout of books, single-leaf works of calligraphy, iconic writing in contemporary art, to more theoretical considerations on aesthetic perception.

Dieses Buch bietet einen lebendigen Überblick über die islamische Kunst von ihren Anfängen bis in die Moderne. Es stellt sowohl die Grundzüge dar, die sich in der gesamten islamischen Welt finden, und zeichnet die vielfältigen regionalen Traditionen nach, die den Reichtum der islamischen Kunst ausmachen. Lorenz Korn erklärt das «Bilderverbot» des Islam und seine Auswirkungen auf die Kunst und führt in die verschiedenen Gattungen ein, die von der Kalligraphie und den Dekorationskünsten über die Buchmalerei, die Architektur der Paläste und Grabbauten bis zum Moscheebau mit seinen ganz unterschiedlichen Formen reichen. Mit 53 Abbildungen, davon 20 in Farbe.