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Title

Türkmenistan : Magtymgulynyň mekanynyň sungaty / Pol Maýkl Teýlor, Trewor Lumis Merion, Wilýam Bredford Smit, Jasper Jon Wo-Kwaýzbat = Turkmenistan : arts from the land of Magtymguly / Paul Michael Taylor, Trevor Loomis Merrion, William Bradford Smith, Jasper John Waugh-Quasebarth.

Author

Taylor, Paul Michael, 1953-

Publication

• [Washington, D.C.] : Asian Cultural History Program, Smithsonian Institution, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Merrion, Trevor Loomis, 1987-
• Smith, William Bradford, 1984-
• Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper, 1990-
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Asian Cultural History Program

Description

219, [16] pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps in color; 28 cm

Summary

Turkmenistan: Arts from the Land of Magtymguly is designed to introduce the traditional and contemporary arts of Turkmenistan to a broad public. The authors, who are researchers within the Smithsonian's Asian cultural history program, describe recent reinterpretations of traditional themes and motifs from Turkmenistan's past within artworks of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These transformations include the incorporation of distinctive tribal or regional elements into a national narrative of a unified Turkmenistan, corresponding to the "dream" so frequently expressed in the poetry of the 18th-century poet Magtymguly - who is now celebrated as the national poet of Turkmenistan. This survey is amply illustrated with many previously unpublished examples of traditional textiles and craftwork from the State Museum of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan; paintings, gobelins, and other contemporary artworks from Turkmenistan's Museum of Fine Arts; and musical adaptions and interpretations of Magtymguly's verses performed by bagshy (folk musicians who sing the verses while playing their two-stringed dutar) from the archives of Turkmenistan's National conservatory. -- from back cover.

Alternative Title

• Magtymgulynyň mekanynyň sungaty
• Turkmenistan : arts from the land of Magtymguly
• Arts from the land of Magtymguly
• Magtymgulynyň mekanynyň sungaty

Subject

• Magtymguly, approximately 1733-approximately 1782 > Anniversaries, etc
• Arts, Turkmen
• Decorative arts > Turkmenistan
• Turkmen > Material culture
• Turkmen poetry
• Turkmen > Music
• Folk music > Turkmenistan

Genre/Form

• Music
• Musique.

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the Turkmenistan Culture Days in the United States of America (December 2013); held in conjunction with preparatory celebrations for the 290th anniversary of the birth of the poet Magtymguly (2014)."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-217).

Funding (note)

• "This publication, and the cooperative work with Turkmenistan's museums that preceded it, have been made possible by generous support from Chevron."--Title page verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Türkmenistan we Magtymgulynyň arzuwy = Turkmenistan and Magtymguly's dream -- Türkmenistan we türkmen halky = Turkmenistan and the Turkmen people -- Magtymguly Pyragynyň aýdyma geçirilen goşgylary = Song poems of Magtymguly -- Bagşy we türkmen halk sazynyň çäginde şygryýete degişli däp-dessurlar = The bagshy and poetic traditions in Turkmen folk music -- Dokma miras : Türkmenistanyň haly önümleri = Woven heritage : textiles of Turkmenistan -- Türkmenistanyň adaty kümüş şaý-sepleri = Traditional jewelry of Turkmenistan -- Türkmenistanyň şekillendiriş sungatynyň mysallary = Fine art from Turkmenistan -- Senetçilik däpleri şu günde : Türkmen adaty senetçilik däp-dessurlardan ylham alan sungat = Crafting tradition today : art inspired by the traditional crafts of Turkmenistan -- Täze nagyşlar : Türkmenistanyň gobelen dokma işleri = New patterns : Gobelin weavings of Turkmenistan.

ISBN

• 9780972455718
• 097245571X

LCCN

^^2014371436

OCLC

• 864321796
• SCSB-10049854

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library