TY  - JOUR
TT  - A Brief Survey of the Published Literature in Turkish on Islamic Calligraphy
AU  - Schick, İrvin Cemil
PY  - 2009
DA  - September
JF  - Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi
JO  - TALID
PB  - Bilim ve Sanat Vakfı
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1303-9369
SP  - 249
EP  - 274
IS  - 14
KW  - Hat Sanatı
KW  - İslâm Sanatı
KW  - Yazı
KW  - Eğitim
KW  - Hayat Hikâyeleri
N2  - Reaching its zenith during the Ottoman era, Islamic calligraphy was, during most of  its history, bound by the master-apprentice relationship; except for exercise albums,  written sources were the exception rather than the rule. However, the adoption of  Latin script during the republican period interrupted this oral tradition and made it necessary to commit the orally transmitted knowledge to writing. This article reviews  Turkish sources on calligraphy published during the Ottoman and particularly the  republican periods.  After the works of past masters. the most important sources are the exercises,  alphabets, and ligature albums composed by master calligraphers. Although some  have been published in facsimile, the choice of works has generally tended toward  those of calligraphers considered most “evolved,” so that earlier milestones of the  history of calligraphy have been neglected. In addition, some important treatises on  calligraphy have also been published.  Many treatises written between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries on the history  of calligraphy, as well as biographical dictionaries of calligraphers, have been  published in either Ottoman or Latin script. These treatises are sine qua non sources  for studying the history of calligraphy, but it is time to go beyond artists’ biographies  and focus on the works themselves, thus providing concrete analyses of the stages  through which calligraphy has evolved, as well as the characteristics of these stages.  Other books discussed in this article included calligraphers’ monographs, works  focused on specific styles of calligraphy or textual content, calligraphy and  architecture, exhibition and auction catalogues, bibliographies, and books devoted  to paleography, restoration, and the implements of the art. It is necessary to  complement the connaisseurship that dominates these works with the methodologies  of art history and art criticism.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/talid/issue//529809
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/653617
ER  -