Department of Painting
Analytical History of Islamic arts
Graduate Studies, Arts University, Tehran, iran
painting
Fine Arts, Tehran University, Tehran, iran
The number of illustrated historical manuscripts which survived from Safavid time, are very few in comparison with other illustrated literary works of this era and also the illustrated historical texts of their Muslim neighbors-Ottoman and Mughal of India. So, Scholars believe that Safavids were not interested in the illustration of their history, and that it shows a break from Iranian tradition of illustrating history which came back at least to Sasanids. Scholars consider this unwillingness to the illustrating of history as a result of the qualities of Safavid painting, such as following common models and avoiding realism, which separated their painting from their counterparts. In respect, the scholarly writings on picturing history in Sa
Visibility, as a key factor in Foucault’s analyses, had a major role in his thought. It is represented in three ways in his studies: as visual descriptions, as a principle in formation of knowledge, and as a technology of power. Although Foucault’s emphasis on visual descriptions made some scholars considering him as a visual philosopher, by contrast, his revealing of visibility-power relation, induced others to describe him as an opponent of ocularcentrism and believe that Foucault uses “vision” for “denigration of vision”. Thus, this article, by clarifying Foucault’s approach to “vision” and “visibility”, tries to represent a subtle image of visibility-power relation in his thought. In this article, we will discuss t
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