Fantastic Fauna From China To Crimea

Author : Petya Andreeva
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399528556
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea written by Petya Andreeva and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term "e;animal style"e;, this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia. This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the "e;Other"e;. In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.

Author : Petya Andreeva
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399528548
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea written by Petya Andreeva and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term "e;animal style"e;, this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia. This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the "e;Other"e;. In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.

Author : Petya Andreeva
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781399528528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 Bce-500 Ce written by Petya Andreeva and published by EUP. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the zoomorphic imagination and imagemaking of Eurasian nomads and their dynamic interactions with neighbouring sedentary empires

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231006800
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silk Roads Papers written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff
Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN 13 : 9788882651060
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Style in South Russia and China written by Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristina M. Neumann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110883714X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antioch in Syria written by Kristina M. Neumann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines ancient coins and innovative digital technologies to study the citizens of Syrian Antioch and their imperial conquerors.

Author : John Vincent Bellezza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407354354
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tibetan Silver, Gold and Bronze Objects and the Aesthetics of Animals in the Era Before Empire written by John Vincent Bellezza and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This archaeological and art-historical study is woven around rock art and ancient metallic articles attributed to Tibet. The silver bowls, gold finial, and copper alloy spouted jars and trapezoidal plaques featured are assigned to the Iron Age and Protohistoric period. These rare objects are adorned with zoomorphic subjects mimicking those found in rock art and embody an artistic zeitgeist widely diffused in Central Eurasia in Late Prehistory. Diverse sources of inspiration and technological capability are revealed in these objects and rock art, shedding light on their transcultural dimension. The archaeological and aesthetic materials in this work prefigure the Tibetan cosmopolitanism of early historic times promoted through the spread of Buddhist ideas, art and craft from abroad.

Author : Virginia Tassinari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350070270
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing in Dark Times written by Virginia Tassinari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of 'dark times' (a concept which, drawing from Brecht, she made her own). Building on the revival of interest in Hannah Arendt, and on the increasing turn in design towards the expanded field of the social, this unique book uses insights and quotations drawn from Arendt's major writings (The Human Condition; The Origins of Totalitarianism, Men in Dark Times) to assemble a new kind of lexicon for politics, designing and acting today. Taking 56 terms – from Action, Beginnings and Creativity through Mortality, Natality, and Play to Superfluity, Technology and Violence – and inviting designers and scholars of design world-wide to contribute, Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon, offers up an extraordinary range of short essays that use moments and quotations from Arendt's thought as the starting points for reflection on how these terms can be conceived for contemporary design and political praxis. Neither simply dictionary nor glossary, the lexicon brings together designing and political philosophy to begin to create a new language for acting and designing against dark times.

Author : Rory Naismith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139503006
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England written by Rory Naismith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study of coinage in early medieval England is the first to take account of the very significant additions to the corpus of southern English coins discovered in recent years and to situate this evidence within the wider historical context of Anglo-Saxon England and its continental neighbours. Its nine chapters integrate historical and numismatic research to explore who made early medieval coinage, who used it and why. The currency emerges as a significant resource accessible across society and, through analysis of its production, circulation and use, the author shows that control over coinage could be a major asset. This control was guided as much by ideology as by economics and embraced several levels of power, from kings down to individual craftsmen. Thematic in approach, this innovative book offers an engaging, wide-ranging account of Anglo-Saxon coinage as a unique and revealing gauge for the interaction of society, economy and government.

Author : Zhi-Qiang Zhang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fauna of China written by Zhi-Qiang Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: