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The power of things and the flow of cultural transformations : art and culture between Europe and Asia / edited by Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch, Anja Eisenbeiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, European--Asian influences--History.
- Arts, European.
- Arts, Asian--European influences--History.
- Arts, Asian.
- Luxuries--Europe--Asian influences--History.
- Luxuries.
- Luxuries--Asia--European influences--History.
- East and West in art.
- Aesthetics, Comparative.
- Cultural relations--History.
- Cultural relations.
- History.
- Asia.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag, [2010]
- Summary:
- "This volume presents contributions from a lecture series held in the winter semester 2009/10 at the University of Heidelberg's Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows.' The central theme is the power of things--works of art, luxury goods, and ideas--in cultural processes"--P. 8.
- Contents:
- About the agency of things, of objects and artefacts / Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch
- Pt. 1. The efficacy of things : enchanting materials and staggering craftsmanship. 1. Translocation and transformation : some Middle Eastern objects in Europe / Anna Contadini ; 2. The impact of oriental silks on Italian silk weaving in the fourteenth century / Lisa Monnas ; 3. The 'journal' of Ghiyath al-Din Naqqash, Timurid envoy to Khan Balïgh, and Chinese art and architecture / David J. Roxburgh ; 4. The cargo of the New Year's Gift : pictures from London to India and Japan, 1614 / Timon Screech
- Pt. 2. Reified memories : the embodiment of historicity. 5. The power of Maori things : Tene Waitere's carving and colonial history / Nicholas Thomas ; 6. Musical instruments as conveyors of meaning from one culture to another : the example of the lute / Charles Burnett ; 7. The modern Japanese garden in a transnational context / Toshio Watanabe
- Pt. 3. Things from afar : heralded imaginings. 8. 'A thing called the Grail' : oriental spolia in Wolfram's Parzival and its manuscript tradition / Michael Stolz ; 9. India ink : imagery of the subcontinent in early modern Europe / Larry Silver ; 10. Riding the carpet : the vehicle of stories in the Arabian nights / Marina Warner.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783422069787
- 342206978X
- OCLC:
- 647900997
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