The power of things and the flow of cultural transformations: art and culture between Europe and Asia
"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...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Edited Volume |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Berlin München
Dt. Kunstverl.
2010
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, Inhaltstext: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3473570&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/weimar/toc/626487838_toc.pdf Verlag, Autorenbiografie: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1209/2011402347-b.html Verlag, Verlagsangaben: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1209/2011402347-d.html 
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| Verfasserangaben: | ed. by Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch; Anja Eisenbeiß |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.