Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 469
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ISBN-10 : 9781399528559
ISBN-13 : 1399528556
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Book Synopsis Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea by : Petya Andreeva

Download or read book Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea written by Petya Andreeva and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term "e;animal style"e;, this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia. This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the "e;Other"e;. In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.


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