Download or read book Les arts de l Asie centrale written by Pierre Chuvin and published by Citadelles et Mazenod. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A l'origine de ce livre, une conquête parmi tant d'autres : Alexandre le Grand occupait il y a 2300 ans la Bactriane, province occidentale de l'Asie centrale. Deux siècles plus tard, un envoyé chinois faisait le chemin inverse, vers l'Occident. La réalité humaine de ces régions, carrefour des routes de la Soie, fit éclore un commerce d'une richesse inouïe : ressources minérales (or, lapis-lazuli, turquoise), animales (chevaux ou moutons), vivrières, mais aussi la soie, le coton ou le thé... Marchands porteurs de denrées mais, aussi et surtout, d'idées et de spiritualités. Ce livre part à la redécouverte d'un monde aux dimensions d'un continent, de l'Iran à la Chine, entre les déserts et les steppes au nord et la barrière des Himalayas, au sud. Fébrilement et brièvement exploré au tournant du siècle, avant 1914, ce domaine était depuis lors ouvert par intermittences. L'éclatement de l'Union soviétique a fait sauter les verrous de sa partie la plus secrète : ce livre recrée l'unité d'un ensemble toujours divisé, mais désormais mieux connu. Ces civilisations charnières entre Orient et Occident sont en effet partagées entre des pays aux frontières souvent artificielles : anciennes républiques soviétiques, Afghanistan, Tibet, Mongolie ou Xinjiang chinois. Les cultures se sont succédé ou côtoyées dans ce creuset au rythme de trois grandes étapes. Antiquité où, sur fond d'affrontements et de symbiose, émergent des empires méconnus : parthe, kushan, sassanide, turco-sogdien. L'essor du bouddhisme, qui partira vers la Chine, la Corée, le Japon, marque une période de transition. Proclamé religion officielle du Tibet en 779, sous sa forme lamaïque, il est aussi adopté par la Mongolie. Enfin, la conquête arabe conduisit l'islam au cœur de l'Asie, et diffusa en retour techniques et motifs et couleurs vers Bagdad et Le Caire : ce fut l'apogée de l'Asie centrale, symbolisé par les noms magiques de Samarcande et Boukhara.

Download or read book Les arts de l Asie centrale written by Jacquqes Giès and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Central Asian Art written by Vladimir Lukonin and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strict prohibition on the representation of the human form has channeled artistic creation into architecture and architectural decoration. This book is a magical tour through Central Asia - Khirgizia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenia, and Uzbekistan - a cradle of Ancient civilisations and are pository of the Oriental arts inspired by Buddhism and Islam. There are magnificent, full-colour photographs of the abandoned cities of Mervand Urgench, Khiva, the capital of the Kharezm, with its mausoleum of Sheikh Seid Allahuddin,and, the Golden Road to Samarkand, the Blue City, a center of civilisation for 2,500 years. form has channeled artistic creation into architecture and architectural decoration. This book is a magical tour through Central Asia - Khirgizia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenia, and Uzbekistan - a cradle of Ancient civilisations and a repository of the Oriental arts inspired by Buddhism and Islam. There are magnificent, full-colour photographs of the abandoned cities of Mervand Urgench, Khiva, the capital of the Kharezm, with its mausoleum of Sheikh Seid Allahuddin, and, the Golden Road to Samarkand, the Blue City, a center of civilisation for 2,500 years.

Download or read book Ancient Arts of Central Asia written by Tamara Talbot Rice and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nomadic, virtually forgotten tribes once flourished in the vast Central Asian plains stretching from the Black Sea to the Himalayas. Here, surrounded by three imposing civilizations of antiquity -- the Mediterranean world, India, and the Far East -- they created a distinctive art that is often the only remaining evidence of their existence. Tamara Talbot Rice has undertaken a careful regional and chronological survey of the artistic accomplishments of these Central Asian peoples. Beginning with prehistoric days and ending with the centuries that paralleled Europe's dark ages, Tamara Talbot Rice traces the development of their painting, sculpture, pottery, textiles, and architecture, distinguishing between the distinctive contributions of the Central Asians and their debt to the art of other civilizations. Mrs. Talbot Rice examines the Central Asian artistic legacy. In so doing, she provides a brilliant analysis of the art that evolved in that part of the world where Buddhist, Christian, and Moslem tradition converge. -- From publisher's description.

Download or read book Beyond the Silk Road written by Christina Sumner and published by Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the Powerhouse Museum's collection of costumes, textiles,ugs, lithographs of designs and metalwork from Central Asia. The vividmages are accompanied by essays which look at the nexus between the nomadicnd settled cultures of Central Asia and at the history of this region.

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Download or read book Art de l Asie Centrale written by Nikolaj Evstaf'evič Simakov and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Arts of the Book in Central Asia 14th 16th Centuries written by Basil Gray and published by Boulder, Colo. : Shambhala. This book was released on 1979 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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