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Author : Priyatosh Banerjee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032882105
Collection of research papers.
Author : Vladimir Lukonin,Anatoly Ivanov
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780428949
The strict prohibition on the representation of the human form has channeled artistic creation into architecture and architectural decoration. This book is a magical tour through Central Asia - Khirgizia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenia, and Uzbekistan - a cradle of Ancient civilisations and a repository of the Oriental arts inspired by Buddhism and Islam. There are magnificent, full-colour photographs of the abandoned cities of Mervand Urgench, Khiva, the capital of the Kharezm, with its mausoleum of Sheikh Seid Allahuddin, and, the Golden Road to Samarkand, the Blue City, a center of civilisation for 2,500 years.
Author : Lilla Russell-Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047415695
This volume is about the long-neglected, but decisive influence of Uygur patrons on Dunhuang art in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Through an insightful introduction to the hitherto little-known early history and art of the Uygurs, the author explains the social and political forces that shaped the taste of Uygur patrons. The cultural and political effects of Sino-Uygur political marriages are examined in the larger context of the role of high-ranking women in medieval art patronage. Careful study of the iconography, technique and style sheds new light on important paintings in the collection of the British Museum in London, and the Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, in Paris, and through comparative analysis the importance of regional art centres in medieval China and Central Asia is explored. Richly illustrated with line drawings, as well as colour and black-and-white plates.
Author : Patricia E. Karetzky
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461740278
Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition in the cultures of India, Central Asia, China and Japan. The author, while focusing on the visual representation of the Buddhist narrative, goes into some detail regarding the importance of scriptures in each society, and how the written tradition informed the pictorial. Over seventy photos fill this book, which will be of interest to scholars of art history, Eastern religion and Buddhism in particular.
Author : Tan Chung
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8121206170
An anthology of 40 Indian authors that parades various Indian perspectives on China, her civilization, history, society and development. It is a fruition of a project launched by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) where Sino-Indian studies is a special window. A scholarly work.
Author : Manfred Heuser,Hans-Joachim Klimkeit
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004440432
This volume consists of two sections, written by the two authors. The first section contains a study by Manfred Heuser on The Manichaean Myth According to Coptic Sources. This is the first systematic presentation of the basic myth as reflected in Coptic material. The second part is a collection of essays on Manichaeism by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. The essays are concerned, inter alia, with Manichaean art and symbolism, including newly found examples of Manichaean art from Central Asia.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004417731
The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Khitan) will be explored in a systematic way. The first volume Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage is based on the start-up conference held on May 23rd–25th, 2018, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and focuses on the first two of altogether six thematic topics to be dealt with in the project, namely on “patronage and legitimation strategy” as well as "sacred space and pilgrimage."
Author : Marianne Vedeler
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782972150
The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking burial find ever discovered, the other silk finds from high status graves in Scandinavia are discussed along with an introduction to the techniques used to produce raw silk and fabrics. Later chapters concentrate on trade and exchange, considering the role of silk items both as trade objects and precious gifts, and in the light of coin finds. The main trade routes of silk to Scandinavia along the Russian rivers, and comparable Russian finds are described and the production and regulation of silk in Persia, early Islamic production areas and the Byzantine Empire discussed. The final chapter considers silk as a social actor in various contexts in Viking societies compared to the Christian west.
Author : Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 1786730510
Author : Dieter Schlingloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Buddhist antiquities
ISBN : UCBK:C112911858
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015048644960
Author : Herbert Härtel,Marianne Yaldiz,Museum für Indische Kunst (Germany),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870993008
Author : Andrzej Rozwadowski
Publisher : David Brown Book Company
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 838609494X
The book aims to reveal the symbolic basis behind much of the rock art imagery of Central Asia (particularly that in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan with reference to adjacent countries) through the prism of the diversity of ethnic, religious and economic traditions that provided the dynamic interactions throughout the history of this region. It starts with a short introduction to the archaeology, the preceding scholarship and the earliest rock art. Then it moves to the times of the Indo-European migrations, developing new insight into the symbolism of petroglyphs through the Indo-Iranian cosmology and cosmogony. Part three discuses the art of Iranian-Turkic "Early Nomads". Finally, the author analyses the problem of persistence of ancient art and symbolic traditions in new contexts with references to Navruz rites, interactions between shamanism and mystical Islam, and the symbolism of landscape.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UOM:39015063188851
Author : Jason BeDuhn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004172852
New Light on Manichaeism provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion's North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions from the leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of Manichaean literary and artistic productions, and innovative analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.