The power of things and the flow of cultural transformations
Subtitle: art and culture between Europe and Asia
By: edited by Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch, Anja Eisenbeiss
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9783422069787
Subjects: Asian x History Arts; Luxuries; East and West in art; European Arts; Cultural relations; Comparative Aesthetics; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: About the agency of things, of objects and artefacts / Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.