Transcending Patterns - Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Hawaii Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Perspectives on the Global Past
Release date:	February 2021
Authors:	Mariachiara Gasparini
Series editors:	Anand A. Yang • Kieko Matteson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-0-8248-8843-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Fashion design Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Textile arts > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8248-8843-X
Barcode:	9780824888435

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