Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions Through Central Asian Textile Images (Perspectives on the Global Past) - Softcover

Gasparini, Mariachiara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082488843X ISBN 13: 9780824888435

Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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 analysis of the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin and more than a thousand textiles held in collections worldwide, Gasparini discloses and reconstructs the rich cultural entanglements along the Silk Road, between the coming of Islam and the rise of the Mongol Empire, from the Tarim to Mediterranean Basin. Exploring in detail the iconographic transfer between different agents and different media from Central Asian caves to South Italian churches, the author depicts and describes the movement and exchange of portable objects such as sculpture, wall painting, and silk fragments across the Asian continent and across the ages.

Gasparini's history offers critical perspectives that extend far beyond an outmoded notion of "Silk Road studies." Her cross-media work shows readers how certain material cultures are connected not only by the physical routes they take but also because of the meanings and interpretations these objects engage in various places. Transcending Patterns is at once art history, material and visual cultural history, Asian studies, conservatory studies, and linguistics.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mariachiara Garsparini received a PhD in transcultural studies and global art history from Heidelberg University, Germany. Her research focuses on Central Asian material culture, wall painting, artist's praxis, and Sino-Iranian and Turko-Mongol interactions. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Asia. Since 2015 she has been teaching Asian art in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• ISBN 10: 082488843X
• ISBN 13: 9780824888435
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar