The power of things and the flow of cultural transformations : art and culture between Europe and Asia /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag, c2010.
Description:	280 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Arts, European -- Asian influences -- History. Arts, Asian -- European influences -- History. Luxuries -- Europe -- Asian influences -- History. Luxuries -- Asia -- European influences -- History. East and West in art. Aesthetics, Comparative. Cultural relations -- History. Aesthetics, Comparative. Cultural relations. East and West in art. Asia. Europe. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8295060

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Other authors / contributors:	Saurma-Jeltsch, Lieselotte E. Eisenbeiss, Anja.
ISBN:	9783422069787 342206978X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
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.

Table of 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.

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