Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526-1658

Shifting Horizons - A Line and Its Movement in Art, History and Philosophy

“…60 Perhaps this illusory and auratic quality of the horizon contributes to its spiritual value as well. It is fitting to close with the poetic verses of the medieval scholar Al-Salah al-Ṣafadī, who writes in his commentary on the poem Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam (the L-poem of the non-Arabs), how beautiful are the words of a poet, em-57 Gonzalez (2016), 210. 58 Gamboni (2001;; see also Flood (2016).…”

“…56 For the expressive power of images of clouds in Islamic paintings, see the pioneering work of Hillenbrand (2016). See also the short discussion of Gonzalez (2016), mainly 212-214, on clouds and skyscape; Damisch (2002). meeting point between the two, at the horizon.…”

The Caucasus in Europe-Asia Connectivity

“…One group of intellectuals describe the mixing of identity, race and culture as a planned phenomenon that eventually led to identity crises within the diverse cultural trajectories of the Caspian region (Bhabha 1995, 68, 117 & 208;Bakhtin 1993, 19, 35 & 55). A different group of scholars highlights this phenomenon as a historical evolutionary process (Snell-Hornby, Jettmarova & Kaindl 1995, Prabhu 2007, Gonzalez 2016 andUytanlet 2016). In between both arguments, this study follows the note of Audrey Altstadt who once noted the "golden youth of Azerbaijan becoming Europeanized at the point of rejecting their native culture" (Altstadt 2016).…”