Titel: | The power of things and the flow of cultural transformations |
Titelzusatz: | art and culture between Europe and Asia |
Mitwirkende: | Saurma-Jeltsch, Lieselotte E. [Hrsg.]  |
| Eisenbeiß, Anja [Hrsg.]  |
Verf.angabe: | ed. by Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch; Anja Eisenbeiß |
Verlagsort: | Berlin ; München |
Verlag: | Dt. Kunstverl. |
Jahr: | 2010 |
Umfang: | 280 S. |
Illustrationen: | Ill. |
Format: | 24 cm |
Fussnoten: | 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 |
Ang. zum Inhalt: | 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. |
ISBN: | 978-3-422-06978-7 |
Abstract: | "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 |
URL: | Inhaltstext: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3473570&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm |
| Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/weimar/toc/626487838_toc.pdf |
| Autorenbiografie: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1209/2011402347-b.html |
| Verlagsangaben: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1209/2011402347-d.html |
Schlagwörter: | (g)Europa / (g)Asien / (s)Kulturkontakt / (s)Kulturwandel / (s)Sachkultur / (s)Künste  |
| (g)Asien / (g)Europa / (s)Kulturkontakt / (s)Kulturwandel / (s)Sachkultur  |
Dokumenttyp: | Aufsatzsammlung |
Sprache: | eng |
RVK-Notation: | LH 64920  |
K10plus-PPN: | 626487838 |
Verknüpfungen: | → Artikel |
¬The¬ power of things and the flow of cultural transformations / Saurma-Jeltsch, Lieselotte E. [Hrsg.]; 2010