Title: The power of things and the flow of cultural transformations
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.
Subjects: Asian x History Arts, Luxuries, East and West in art, European Arts, Cultural relations, Comparative Aesthetics, History, Art, european, Art, asian, Luxury, Aesthetics, Asian influences, Asian Arts, European influences
Places: Europe, Asia