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READ & DOWNLOAD Benim Adım Kırmızı î PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB At once a fiendishly devious mystery a beguiling love story and a brilliant symposium on the power of art My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth century Istanbul from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writersThe Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the. This book is as much about art as it is a historical novel First the novel A tale of miniaturist painters in Istanbul during the late 1500 s The deceased master s daughter is in a religious and political limbo her soldier husband has been missing for four years but with no body and no witnesses to his death she can t get a divorce and move on with her life She wants to find a new husband and a father for her two young boys and get away from the amorous intentions of her husband s brother And there s a murder mysteryEnter a man called Black an administrator of sorts who has returned to town after twelve years in distant lands He still carries a torch for the beautiful widow from his days as a youth Can he find her father s killer keep the brother in law at bay help her get a legal divorce and win her hand in marriage Along the way we have blended into the text what are really mini essays about horses dogs in the Koran what it s like to be a murderer Satan the path of a counterfeit coin etcAt least half of this lengthy work is about art I say lengthy because the 500 page paperback I read was tiny type so this is a 700 or 800 page book in normal font Miniaturist painting was imported into the Ottoman Empire from Persia Most of the painting was done as pictures in books and to illustrate the borders of pages of books accompanied by elaborate calligraphy Think of the Irish monks manuscripts such as the Book of Kells Ottoman miniaturist painting was highly stylized Pictures were drawn from the viewpoint of Allah from the top of a minaret and did not use what the West thinks of as true perspective Armies lined up symmetrically in battle scenes horses always had the same foreleg raised a finger placed in a mouth always represented surprise In accordance with religious concerns about idolatry faces were generic not individualized Who would dare place an identifiable individual at the center of a painting Man can copy only Allah can create The painter tried to portray the ideal horse or chair as Allah created it think Plato s ideal chair not the individual variant before them Is individuality expressed by a traditional miniaturist painter style or a flaw Does it offend God Compare all this to the European masters at the time such as da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael the Turks called them the Venetians So a lot of the book is about East meets West in the art world All in all an excellent book from the Nobel Prize winning Pamuk The story kept my interest and I enjoyed learning about Ottoman art even when the sections where the miniaturists talked about the philosophy behind painting got repetitive at times Indoor Bonsai: A Beginner's Step-By-Step Guide (Crowood Gardening Guides) use what the West thinks of as true perspective Armies lined KW Cash up symmetrically in battle scenes horses always had the same foreleg raised a finger placed in a mouth always represented surprise In accordance with religious concerns about idolatry faces were generic not individualized Who would dare place an identifiable individual at the center of a painting Man can copy only Allah can create The painter tried to portray the ideal horse or chair as Allah created it think Plato s ideal chair not the individual variant before them Is individuality expressed by a traditional miniaturist painter style or a flaw Does it offend God Compare all this to the European masters at the time such as da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael the Turks called them the Venetians So a lot of the book is about East meets West in the art world All in all an excellent book from the Nobel Prize winning Pamuk The story kept my interest and I enjoyed learning about Ottoman art even when the sections where the miniaturists talked about the philosophy behind painting got repetitive at times

READ & DOWNLOAD Benim Adım Kırmızı î PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Or nature of the project and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears The only clue to the mystery–or crime –lies in the half finished illuminations themselves Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art religion love sex and pow. I am in two minds about this bookObviously it is an important work It showcases the miniaturist tradition of the Islamic world and uses the cloistered world of miniaturists to explore the difference in philosophies between the East and the West It was all the interesting to me because I have been fascinated by this difference ever since I began viewing paintings with serious interest In the East perspective does not exist the painting flows seamlessy over space and time whereas in the West especially since the Renaissance the painting is the reproduction of a particular moment in time we are not talking of abstractions here The miniaturist paints the world as God sees it he does not sign the painting nor does he have an individual style because he is unimportant He continues painting in fact he paints better after he inevitably goes blind The Frankish painters in contrast paint the world as we see it which is blasphemy according to some of the miniaturistsI was captivated by the sweep of the book as well as the way it was presented short chapters each from the viewpoint of a different character as though we were looking at a book of miniatures which tells a different story on each page Moreover it is a murder mystery in which the victims as well as the murderer directly speak to the reader It bears a certain resemblance to The Name of the Rose in this regard although Eco s book is much powerful according to meComing to the minuses the writing is cumbersome and a task to wade through I do not know if this is a problem with Pamuk s writing or the translation The characters are flat the protagonist Black is too weak and cowardly the heroine if we can call her that too self centred and manipulative Maybe the author intended them to be like that but it does lose reader interestI was also rather put off by the amount of lust bubbling on each page Apart from normal sex including homosexuality there is incest paedophilia bestiality fetishism simmering just beneath the surface Young boys are regularly presented as objects of lust Men kiss each other passionately even when one is about to kill the other I have heard that Turkey was the centre of deviant sexual practices during Ottoman times so maybe it is a true picture but it did not vibe with me Edit to add a person has commented that this paragraph is likely to give the impression that I am attacking LGBT people and on reading it again I find that there is some substance to the accusation So I have edited it suitably The whole idea of putting deviant in uotes was to highlight the dubiousness of the label However it was the lust that disturbed me and not the sexual preference Maybe it is my personal problem that is why I have noted it down subjectivelySoadding the negatives and positives I will go for three stars

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READ & DOWNLOAD Benim Adım Kırmızı î PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm Their task to illuminate the work in the European style But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope. On a high versionI am called Black I longed for my dearest Shekure for twelve years I Shekure not uite sure what was I doing in this story I am called Butterfly I was the one who drew the Death and Mia thought I was the murderer I am called Stork I was the one who drew the Tree and Butterfly always envy me as I was talented without the help from our master I am called Olive I was the one who rendered the Satan and drew the exuisite horse I am your beloved uncle I was preparing a book for our Refuge of the World Our Glorious Sultan before being murdered by one of my apprentice It is I Master Osman I wished to follow the path of Master Bihzad who blinded himself with a needle I am Esther my eyes were eternally at the windows and my ears were eternally to the ground I am a corpse I was Elegant Effendi before being murdered by a fellow painter I am Mia I read this book from page 1 to 508 whilst crawling and bleeding to death So please would someone explain wth is this book about Jackie Chan Who am ISober versionInteresting story regarding Istanbul in the 16th century One day I ll visit the amazing Blue Mosue that a good friend of mine Eddie always talk about But seriously though this book is amazing I can t get into it Totally not my rocknrolla thingone of the bule put this book on my desk got no idea which one though they pointed their fingers to each other lol