Course Description:
This course explores the intersection of verbal and visual language in Persian painting. Art historical approaches to word and image broadly will be considered comparatively to nonwestern materials from Persian speaking regions. A general introduction to the Persian literary formats and the history of Persian painting will be introduced in the first half of the semester. The second half will consider a small selection of texts in translation in relation to their accompanying pictorial cycles.
Language:
German and English are necessary for to participate in this course.Class instructor will conduct class meetings in English, and most readings will also be in English. Whenever possible, materials written in German will be provided. Students are invited to participate in either German or English. Wissenschaftliche Arbeit will be conducted in German to better adhere to the department’s Leitfaden
- Trainer/in: Ioanna Papazoglou
- Trainer/in: Margaret Shortle