artist book
- Museum number
- 2006,0208,0.1
- Title
- Object: Ten poems from Hafez
- Description
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Hand-made book of ten silkscreens with poems by Hafez, on Japanese paper. The silkscreens feature zoomorphic calligraphy in 'nasta'liq' script.
- Production date
- 2004
- Dimensions
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Height: 33.10 centimetres (closed)
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Width: 43.20 centimetres (closed)
- Curator's comments
- Following the tradition of zoomorphic calligraphy which became particularly popular in Iran and Turkey in the 19th century, in this book the artist has used the Persian text of whole poems from Hafez , the fourteenth century lyric poet of Shiraz, to create images of animals mentioned in the poems using the 'nasta’ liq' script.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2008 7 Feb-30 Apr, Dubai International Finance Centre, Word into Art, cat.22
2006 18 May-2 Sept, London, BM, Word into Art, cat.19
- Acquisition date
- 2006
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 2006,0208,0.1
