Tibetan Silver, Gold and Bronze Objects and the Aesthetics of Animals in the Era before Empire: Cross-cultural reverberations on the Tibetan Plateau and soundings from other parts of Eurasia - Couverture souple

Bellezza, John Vincent

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1407354310 ISBN 13 : 9781407354316

Editeur : BAR Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

This archaeological and art-historical study is woven around rock art and ancient metallic articles attributed to Tibet. The silver bowls, gold finial, and copper alloy spouted jars and trapezoidal plaques featured are assigned to the Iron Age and Protohistoric period. These rare objects are adorned with zoomorphic subjects mimicking those found in rock art and embody an artistic zeitgeist widely diffused in Central Eurasia in Late Prehistory. Diverse sources of inspiration and technological capability are revealed in these objects and rock art, shedding light on their transcultural dimension. The archaeological and aesthetic materials in this work prefigure the Tibetan cosmopolitanism of early historic times promoted through the spread of Buddhist ideas, art and craft from abroad. The metallic articles and petroglyphs of this study are markers of relationships between Tibet and her neighbours. These transactions enabled a fusion of Tibetan innovation and foreign inventiveness, a synthesis of disparate ideas, aesthetics and technologies in the objects and rock art presented.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BAR Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1407354310
• ISBN 13: 9781407354316
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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