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Investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Gasparini's history offers critical perspectives that extend far beyond an outmoded notion of Silk Road studies.

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In deploying a transcultural framework, Mariachiara Gasparini demonstrates the ways in which the material can become more open to multiple meanings and mirror its multifaceted uses with a more flexible, interpretive framework. In her analysis of the material forms of silk in China, the Himalayan Kingdoms including Ladakh, and its constitution in Italy, it may be too soon to say whether Gasparini has single-handedly engineered a field-changing, barrier-breaking analysis of the stuff that brought the "Silk Road" trading routes into existence, but we can state with certainty that she has given researchers tools to fabricate concrete arguments for further study.

Transcending Patterns Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images Perspectives on the Global Past

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 12/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824877989, 978-0824877989
      ISBN10: 0824877985
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      Fashion and textile design History of art Asian history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Gasparini's history offers critical perspectives that extend far beyond an outmoded notion of Silk Road studies.

      Trade Review
      In deploying a transcultural framework, Mariachiara Gasparini demonstrates the ways in which the material can become more open to multiple meanings and mirror its multifaceted uses with a more flexible, interpretive framework. In her analysis of the material forms of silk in China, the Himalayan Kingdoms including Ladakh, and its constitution in Italy, it may be too soon to say whether Gasparini has single-handedly engineered a field-changing, barrier-breaking analysis of the stuff that brought the "Silk Road" trading routes into existence, but we can state with certainty that she has given researchers tools to fabricate concrete arguments for further study.

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