The Art of Armenia: An Introduction

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Oxford University Press, 12 d’oct. 2018 - 272 pàgines
Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "hot zone," Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book presents a timely and much-needed survey of the arts of Armenia from antiquity to the early eighteenth century C.E. Divided chronologically, it brings into discussion a wide range of media, including architecture, stone sculpture, works in metal, wood, and cloth, manuscript illumination, and ceramic arts. Critically, The Art of Armenia presents this material within historical and archaeological contexts, incorporating the results of specialist literature in various languages. It also positions Armenian art within a range of broader comparative contexts including, but not limited to, the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, Byzantium, the Islamic world, Yuan-dynasty China, and seventeenth-century Europe. The Art of Armenia offers students, scholars, and heritage readers of the Armenian community something long desired but never before available: a complete and authoritative introduction to three thousand years of Armenian art, archaeology, architecture, and design.
 

Continguts

1 The Ancient Armenian Highlands
3
Introduction
5
2 The Early Medieval Era
30
3 The Age of the Kingdoms
56
4 The Art of Armenian Cilicia
92
5 Greater Armenia in the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries
125
6 Empire and Diaspora in the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
167
Memory and Heritage
198
Notes
209
Select Bibliography
237
Index
243
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Christina Maranci is Arthur H. Dadian and Ara T. Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art, and a specialist on the medieval era. She has published and lectured widely, having authored three previous monographs and over seventy essays, articles, and reviews. Her work combines scholarship on the history of Armenian art and architecture with advocacy for at-risk Armenian heritage, particularly medieval monuments in the Republic of Turkey.

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