Fantastic Fauna From China To Crimea
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Fantastic Fauna From China To Crimea
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Author : Petya Andreeva
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-05
Fantastic Fauna From China To Crimea written by Petya Andreeva and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with History categories.
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.
Fantastic Fauna From China To Crimea Image Making In Eurasian Nomadic Societies 700 Bce 500 Ce
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Author : Petya Andreeva
language : en
Publisher: EUP
Release Date : 2024-03-31
Fantastic Fauna From China To Crimea Image Making In Eurasian Nomadic Societies 700 Bce 500 Ce written by Petya Andreeva and has been published by EUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-31 with categories.
Explores the zoomorphic imagination and imagemaking of Eurasian nomads and their dynamic interactions with neighbouring sedentary empires
Fantastic Fauna From China To Crimea
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Author : Petya Andreeva
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-05
Fantastic Fauna From China To Crimea written by Petya Andreeva and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with History categories.
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.
Silk Roads Papers
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Author : UNESCO
language : en
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Release Date : 2024-05-23
Silk Roads Papers written by UNESCO and has been published by UNESCO Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-23 with Political Science categories.
The Animal Style In South Russia And China
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Author : Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff
language : en
Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Release Date : 2000
The Animal Style In South Russia And China written by Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff and has been published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Tibetan Silver Gold And Bronze Objects And The Aesthetics Of Animals In The Era Before Empire
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Author : John Vincent Bellezza
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Tibetan Silver Gold And Bronze Objects And The Aesthetics Of Animals In The Era Before Empire written by John Vincent Bellezza and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Animals in art categories.
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.
Antioch In Syria
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Author : Kristina M. Neumann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-02
Antioch In Syria written by Kristina M. Neumann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-02 with History categories.
Combines ancient coins and innovative digital technologies to study the citizens of Syrian Antioch and their imperial conquerors.
Designing In Dark Times
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Author : Virginia Tassinari
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-12
Designing In Dark Times written by Virginia Tassinari and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-12 with Design categories.
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.
Internationalist Aesthetics
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Author : Edward Tyerman
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Internationalist Aesthetics written by Edward Tyerman and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with History categories.
Winner, 2022 AATSEEL Best Book in Literary Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and European Languages Honorable Mention, 2022 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association Following the failure of communist revolutions in Europe, in the 1920s the Soviet Union turned its attention to fostering anticolonial uprisings in Asia. China, divided politically between rival military factions and dominated economically by imperial powers, emerged as the Comintern’s prime target. At the same time, a host of prominent figures in Soviet literature, film, and theater traveled to China, met with Chinese students in Moscow, and placed contemporary China on the new Soviet stage. They sought to reimagine the relationship with China in the terms of socialist internationalism—and, in the process, determine how internationalism was supposed to look and feel in practice. Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Edward Tyerman tracks how China became the key site for Soviet debates over how the political project of socialist internationalism should be mediated, represented, and produced. The central figure in this story, the avant-garde writer Sergei Tret’iakov, journeyed to Beijing in the 1920s and experimented with innovative documentary forms in an attempt to foster a new sense of connection between Chinese and Soviet citizens. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, Tyerman shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community. He reveals both the aspirations and the limitations of this project, illuminating a crucial chapter in Sino-Russian relations. Grounded in extensive sources in Russian and Chinese, this cultural history bridges Slavic and East Asian studies and offers new insight into the transnational dynamics that shaped socialist aesthetics and politics in both countries.
Glocal English
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Author : Farooq A. Kperogi
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2015-06-22
Glocal English written by Farooq A. Kperogi and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world’s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora. Using contemporary examples from the mass media and the author’s rich experiential data, the book isolates the peculiar structural, grammatical, and stylistic characteristics of Nigerian English and shows its similarities as well as its often humorous differences with British and American English. Although Nigerian English forms the backdrop of the book, it will benefit teachers of English as a second or foreign language across the world. Similarly, because it presents complex grammatical concepts in a lucid, personal narrative style, it is useful both to a general and a specialist audience, including people who study anthropology and globalization. The true-life experiential encounters that the book uses to instantiate the differences and similarities between Nigerian English and native varieties of English will make it valuable as an empirical data mine for disciplines that investigate the movement and diffusion of linguistic codes across the bounds of nations and states in the age of globalization.