Research Catalog

Title

Uzbekistan : heirs to the Silk Road / edited by Johannes Kalter and Margareta Pavaloi ; with contributions by M. Pavaloi ... [et al. ; translated from the German by Stefan B. Polter].

Publication

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kalter, Johannes.
• Pavaloi, Margareta.

Description

360 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 32 cm.

Uniform Title

Usbekistan. English.

Alternative Title

• Heirs to the silk road
• Erben der Seidenstrasse-Usbekistan

Subject

• Art > Uzbekistan
• Islamic art > Uzbekistan
• Silk Road > Antiquities
• Uzbekistan > Antiquities

Note

• "The German edition of this book was published to accompany the exhibition 'Erben der Seidenstrasse-Usbekistan' first shown at Stuttgart then Berlin and Rotterdam"--P. 9.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-359).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Old Silk Road: Transoxiana from the Fourth Century B.C. to the Eighth Century A.D -- How It All Began ... / Margareta Pavaloi 21 -- Uzbekistan and Her Neighbours in Pre-Islamic Times / Heinz Gaube 33 -- A Hoard of Graeco-Bactrian Coins at the State Museum of Art and Architecture, Bukhara / Golib Kurbanov 39 -- China and the West, Klaus / J. Brandt 53 -- Central Asia in Islamic Times: Eighth to Fifteenth Century -- The Land beyond the River: Islam in Central Asia / Heinz Halm 68 -- Islamic Architecture in Uzbekistan / Thomas Leisten 79 -- The Arts of the Book in Central Asia / Karin Ruhrdanz 101 -- Is there a Distinctive Central Asian Type of Islamic Art? / Johannes Kalter 117 -- Islamic Metalwork, Ninth to Fifteenth Century / Almut von Gladiss 123 -- Metalwork Since the Fifteenth Century / Johannes Kalter 138 -- Ceramics from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century / Johannes Kalter 140 -- Like Porcelain: Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century Ceramics from Uzbekistan / Gisela Helmecke 156 -- Turkestan under the Uzbek Khanates: Sixteenth to Twentieth Century -- The Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva and Kokand / Margareta Pavaloi 166 -- Aspects of an Equestrian Culture / Johannes Kalter 169 -- Houses and Their Furnishings / Johannes Kalter 189 -- The Textile Arts of Uzbekistan / Maria Zerrnickel 211 -- Suzanis: Embroideries from Central Asia / Gisela Dombrowski 263 -- Large Medallion Suzanis: An essay in interpretation / Gisela Helmecke 279 -- Jewellery of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century / Johannes Kalter 284 -- Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century Metalwork / Johannes Kalter 295 -- Ceramics of the Eighteenth to Twentieth Century / Johannes Kalter 306 -- Uzbekistan -- From the Russian Conquest to the Declaration of Independence / Reinhard Eisener 333 -- Uzbekistan: Geographical Aspects of a Post-Soviet Successor State in Central Asia / Jorg Stadelbauer 339 -- The Aral Sea: A Regional Ecologic Disaster with Global Implications / Jorg Stadelbauer 347.

ISBN

0500974519

OCLC

• 37753113
• SCSB-10536637

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library