Uzbekistan : heirs to the silk road / edited by Johannes Kalter and Margareta Pavaloi ; with contributions by M. Pavaloi ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalter, Johannes.

Pavaloi, Margareta.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Art--Uzbekistan.

Art.

Islamic art--Uzbekistan.

Islamic art.

Uzbekistan.

Art, Uzbek.

Uzbekistan--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

360 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Language Note:

Preface also in Russian.

Summary:

From the second century, B.C., the Silk Road a more than 4,000-mile link between China and the Roman Empire served the trade of luxury goods, notably silk, and the spread of ideas about religion, culture, and art. The republic of Uzbekistan is home to several ancient urban centers along the Silk Road. The artistic and cultural history of the region through more than two millennia is complemented by 712 illus. 437 in color.

Contents:

The Old Silk Road: Transoxiana from the Fourth Century B.C. to the Eighth Century A.D

How It All Began ... / Margareta Pavaloi 21

Uzbekistan and Her Neighbours in Pre-Islamic Times / Heinz Gaube 33

A Hoard of Graeco-Bactrian Coins at the State Museum of Art and Architecture, Bukhara / Golib Kurbanov 39

China and the West, Klaus / J. Brandt 53

Central Asia in Islamic Times: Eighth to Fifteenth Century

The Land beyond the River: Islam in Central Asia / Heinz Halm 68

Islamic Architecture in Uzbekistan / Thomas Leisten 79

The Arts of the Book in Central Asia / Karin Ruhrdanz 101

Is there a Distinctive Central Asian Type of Islamic Art? / Johannes Kalter 117

Islamic Metalwork, Ninth to Fifteenth Century / Almut von Gladiss 123

Metalwork Since the Fifteenth Century / Johannes Kalter 138

Ceramics from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century / Johannes Kalter 140

Like Porcelain: Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century Ceramics from Uzbekistan / Gisela Helmecke 156

Turkestan under the Uzbek Khanates: Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

The Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva and Kokand / Margareta Pavaloi 166

Aspects of an Equestrian Culture / Johannes Kalter 169

Houses and Their Furnishings / Johannes Kalter 189

The Textile Arts of Uzbekistan / Maria Zerrnickel 211

Suzanis: Embroideries from Central Asia / Gisela Dombrowski 263

Large Medallion Suzanis: An essay in interpretation / Gisela Helmecke 279

Jewellery of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century / Johannes Kalter 284

Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century Metalwork / Johannes Kalter 295

Ceramics of the Eighteenth to Twentieth Century / Johannes Kalter 306

Uzbekistan

From the Russian Conquest to the Declaration of Independence / Reinhard Eisener 333

Uzbekistan: Geographical Aspects of a Post-Soviet Successor State in Central Asia / Jorg Stadelbauer 339

The Aral Sea: A Regional Ecologic Disaster with Global Implications / Jorg Stadelbauer 347.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-359).

ISBN:

0500974519

OCLC:

37753113