Transcending Patterns : Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images / Mariachiara Gasparini; Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasparini, Mariachiara, Author.

Contributor:

Matteson, Kieko, Editor.

Yang, Anand A., Editor.

Series:

Perspectives on the global past.

Perspectives on the Global Past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics--Asia, Central.

Textile fabrics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Notes on Terms, Transliterations, and Translations

Introduction: A Medieval Matrix

CHAPTER 1. The Development of Central Asian Textile Imagery

CHAPTER 2. The Sino-Sogdian Matrix and Its Preservation

CHAPTER 3. The Adaptation of Ancient Central Asian Patterns

CHAPTER 4. A Kinship of Images

CONCLUSION. A Step Away from the Renaissance

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780824881719

0824881710

9780824881702

0824881702

OCLC:

1149519985