Main entry:

Uzbekistan (Erbe der Seidenstrasse). English.

Title & Author:

Uzbekistan : heirs to the silk road / edited by Johannes Kalter and Margareta Pavaloi ; with contributions by M. Pavaloi [and others].

Publication:

New York : Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Description:

360 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Uzbekistan : Erbe der Seidenstrasse.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-359).
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.
Pref. in English and Russian.

ISBN:

0500974519
9780500974513

Subject:

Art Uzbekistan.
Islamic art Uzbekistan.
Art, Uzbek.
Art islamique Ouzbékistan.
Art ouzbek.
Art.
Civilization.
Islamic art.
Beeldende kunsten.
Zijdewegen.
Uzbekistan Civilization.
Uzbekistan.
Art, Islamic
Decoration and ornament
Silk road

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Added entries:

Kalter, Johannes.
Pavaloi, Margareta.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 178775
Call No.: ID N7297.U915; ID:98-B1273
Status: Available