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Sudden Appearances - The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art (Hardcover)
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Sudden Appearances - The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives on the Global Past
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An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations,
the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical
consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of
the secular within received cosmologies, human agency in history,
and naturalism in the representation of social and organic
environments all appear with consistency across diverse venues.
Common themes, styles, motifs, and pigments circulated to an
unprecedented extent during this era creating an equally
unprecedented field of artistic exchange. Exploring art’s
relationship to the unique commercial and political circumstances
of Mongol Eurasia, Sudden Appearances rethinks many art historical
puzzles including the mystery of the Siyah Kalem paintings, the
female cup-bearer in the Royal Drinking Scene at Alchi, and the
Mongol figures who appear in a Sienese mural. Drawing on primary
sources both visual and literary as well as scholarship that has
only recently achieved critical mass in the areas of Mongolian
studies and Eurasian histories, Roxann Prazniak orchestrates an
inquiry into a critical passage in world history, a prelude to the
spin-off to modernity. Sudden Appearances highlights the visual and
emotional prompts that motivated innovative repurposing of existing
cultural perspectives and their adjustment to expanding geographic
and social worlds. While early twentieth-century scholarship
searched for a catholic universalism in shared European and Chinese
art motifs, this inquiry looks to the relationships among societies
of central, western, and eastern Asia during the Mongol era as a
core site of social and political discourse that defined a
globalizing era in Eurasian artistic exchange. The materiality of
artistic creativity, primarily access to pigments, techniques, and
textiles, provides a path through the interconnected commercial and
intellectual byways of the long thirteenth century. Tabriz of the
Ilkhanate with its proximity to the Mediterranean and al-Hind seas
and relations to the Yuan imperial center establishes the
geographic and organizational hub for this study of eight
interconnected cities nested in their regional domains. Avoiding
the use of modern geographic markers such as China, Europe, Middle
East, India, Sudden Appearances shifts analysis away from the
limits of nation-state claims toward a borderless world of creative
commerce.
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