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- Title
BATHHOUSES AS SITES OF PROTEST: REBELLIOUS BODIES IN THE ARTS OF EARLY MODERN IRAN.
- Authors
MOOSAVI, Mahroo
- Abstract
Bathhouses have a strong presence in Iranian folklore and Persian literature. In parallel with literature, there are illustrations in which the topic of bathhouses is exhibited. This paper focuses on a 16th century Persian miniature painting in which the location of a public bathhouse is used as a place of occurrence of a homosexual love story. On the one hand, bathhouses as places of "purification", and, on the other hand, corporeal bodies as agency of tactile experience create a novel dialectic between the space and its inhabitants. In an atypical study of the spatial organisation of bathhouses in the Safavid period Iran (1501-1736), the paper argues that architecture at the beginning of Iran's modern era, not only questions the normative configurations of space, but also starts to object to the solid foundations of existing religious/societal norms.
- Subjects
BATHHOUSES; IRANIAN miniature painting; PERSIAN literature; HOMOSEXUALITY; IRANIAN folklore
- Publication
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory, 2018, Vol 4, Issue 2, p92
- ISSN
2457-8827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24193/mjcst.2018.6.06