Transcending Patterns : : Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images /

Transcending Patterns : : Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images / / Mariachiara Gasparini; ed. by Kieko Matteson, Anand A. Yang.

In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Gasparini, Mariachiara,
HerausgeberIn:
Matteson, Kieko,
Yang, Anand A.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019]
©2020
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Perspectives on the Global Past
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Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.) :; 20 color, 27 b&w illustrations, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Terms, Transliterations, and Translations
  • Introduction: A Medieval Matrix
  • CHAPTER 1. The Development of Central Asian Textile Imagery
  • CHAPTER 2. The Sino-Sogdian Matrix and Its Preservation
  • CHAPTER 3. The Adaptation of Ancient Central Asian Patterns
  • CHAPTER 4. A Kinship of Images
  • CONCLUSION. A Step Away from the Renaissance
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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