New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and images Tales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century. Reflected in objects and materials whose circulation and reception defined aesthetic, economic, and technological networks that existed outside established political and sectarian boundaries, many of these histories are not documented in the written sources on which historians usually rely. Tales Things Tell charts bold new directions in art history, making a compelling case for the archival value of mobile artifacts and images in reconstructing the past. In this beautifully illustrated book, Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke present six illuminating case studies from the sixth to the thirteenth centuries to show how portable objects mediated the mobility of concepts, iconographies, and techniques. The case studies range from metalwork to stone reliefs, manuscript paintings, and objects using natural materials such as coconut and rock crystal. Whether as booty, commodities, gifts, or souvenirs, many of the objects discussed in Tales Things Tell functioned as sources of aesthetic, iconographic, or technical knowledge in the lands in which they came to rest. Remapping the histories of exchange between medieval Islam and Christendom, from Europe to the Indian Ocean, Tales Things Tell ventures beyond standard narratives drawn from written archival records to demonstrate the value of objects and images as documents of early globalisms. 190 color + 22 b/w illus. 6 maps.
Custodians cleaned up what they broke. Historians picked up what they brought.
About Exhibiting Cultures Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers.
Remembering Margaret Thatcher through images made out of jelly beans, stamps, and happy accidents.
Photographic Print of CAPITALIST PYRAMID, 1911. American Socialist poster #MediaStorehouse
Excavation at a site in the southern Peruvian town of Quilcapampa uncovered artifacts related to hallucinogenic beverages.
A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the era In the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars. As Mughal imperial authority weakened by the late 1600s and the British colonial economy became paramount by the 1830s, new patrons and mobile professionals reshaped urban cultures and artistic genres across early modern India. The Place of Many Moods explores how Udaipur's artworks-monumental court paintings, royal portraits, Jain letter scrolls, devotional manuscripts, cartographic artifacts, and architectural drawings-represent the period's major aesthetic, intellectual, and political shifts. Dipti Khera shows that these immersive objects powerfully convey the bhava-the feel, emotion, and mood-of specific places, revealing visions of pleasure, plenitude, and praise. These memorialized moods confront the ways colonial histories have recounted Oriental decadence, shaping how a culture and time are perceived. Illuminating the close relationship between painting and poetry, and the ties among art, architecture, literature, politics, ecology, trade, and religion, Khera examines how Udaipur's painters aesthetically enticed audiences of courtly connoisseurs, itinerant monks, and mercantile collectives to forge bonds of belonging to real locales in the present and to long for idealized futures. Their pioneering pictures sought to stir such emotions as love, awe, abundance, and wonder, emphasizing the senses, spaces, and sociability essential to the efficacy of objects and expressions of territoriality. The Place of Many Moods uncovers an influential creative legacy of evocative beauty that raises broader questions about how emotions and artifacts operate in constituting history and subjectivity, politics and place. 159 color illus.
The National Woman’s Party said it is donating a large collection of artifacts, many from the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument in D.C., to the federal government.
Archaeologists are rushing to uncover, document and preserve centuries-old objects as new hotels and office buildings go up in the ancient former capital of Japan.
A collection of political fables from late-19th- and early-20th-century Great Britain offers striking allegories that remain pertinent today.
The post-election Blame Game going on has reached almost Olympian proportion. I haven't seen this much blame bashing in all my 25+ years as a therapist...
Israel loaned ancient ceramic candles to the US for a brief exhibition. Almost four years later, they're "stuck" at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
This fascinating map features a thorough overview of the history of the Middle East region and the civilizations who called it home. Includes illustrations of artifacts. Published in September 1978 as a companion to the "Middle East" political map.
Chandragupta Maurya, with the help of Chanakya, defeated the Macedonians, and later defeated the Dhana Nanda and established Mauryan Empire
This is an article that researches into the social, political, economic, religious structures of Ancient Minoan and Ancient Athenian societies, as well an insight into the everyday lives of citizens.
Pictures from today's EDL demonstration
Moses has horns and so does Enkidu, in the epic of Gilgamesh. Enkidu was a wild man, he lived in the wilderness, and Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness. Like Moses, Enkidu came in from the cold…
If Jesus Christ wasn’t a historical person, where did he come from? Who created him? How does one go about ‘creating’ a god anyway; and who would worship a fiction? To begin with, keep in mind that…
It's Dr. Seuss' birthday today. What would he have to say about Donald Trump's 'America First' slogan.
One of the major reasons why moms are vigorously opposing schools adopting the much-ballyhooed Common Core standards is that they are tied to the gathering and storing of in-depth personal data about ...
In Excavation:Earth you lead a race of alien explorers on their quest to excavate human artifacts and curate the ultimate art collection, and most importantly, cash in big! Manage your drafted hand of cards to unearth artifacts in excavation sites around Earth, deploy traders in markets, manipulate market prices to sell at the right for the highest profit. But don’t forget to keep on top of the struggle for political power happening in the halls of the Mothership! Without your envoys there your faction risks being edged out of the upcoming landgrab when Earth is colonized. At the end of the game you want to end up with the coolest collection of artefacts that will wow art museums throughout the Union of Free Races.•ADVENTURE GAME: Lead a race of alien explorers on their quest to excavate human artifacts and curate the ultimate art collection, and most importantly, cash in big!•STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Manage your drafted hand of cards to unearth artifacts in excavation sites around Earth, deploy traders in markets, manipulate market prices to sell at the right for the highest profit. But don’t forget to keep on top of the struggle for political power happening in the halls of the Mothership!•INTERACTIVE AND COMPETITIVE: Without your envoy, your faction risks being edged out of the upcoming landgrab when Earth is colonized. At the end of the game, your goal is to end up with the coolest collection of artefacts that will wow art museums throughout the Union of Free Races.•EASY TO LEARN: The basic mechanics of the game are easy to learn, but the game's multi-use card system presents difficult choices at every turn, making it a fun challenging game for game night with friends and family.•NUMBER OF PLAYERS AND AVERAGE PLAYTIME: This fun board game for teens and adults can be played with 1 to 4 players and is suitable for ages 14 and up. The average playtime is 30 to 90 minutes.
Note added in June 2020:The archbishop of Canterbury claimed Jesus was “nonwhite”. Under such a definition so would Homer, Caesar, Alexander, Socrates, Aristotle, etc. (East) Mediterraneans were more…
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture, particularly comics and related artifacts, between 1880 and 1922. Through cartoons, comics, editorial cartoons, serialized advertisements and other materials the book unfolds a narrative about how the Islamic world and its people were understood by the American government and its people. This "knowledge," garnered from popular culture of the day, produced a lens through which domestic and international relationships were created and maintained. Representing a wide swath of U.S. popular culture and discourse, the reflections these artifacts offer are united in their depiction of the "Oriental" in an era that is largely assumed to have been marked by American un-interest in the region, peoples and religion. An exciting contribution to a growing field, this book resituates the U.S. within the Islamic world, using the everyday medium of comics to provide a fresh perspective on the subject. 26 bw illus
He was born Amenhotep, and was probably the younger son of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye. In 1352 BC, Akhenaten, a teenager at the time, ascended the throne and was crowned at Karnak, succeeding his father under the name Amenhotep IV, the tenth King of the 18th Dynasty. The beginning of his reign marked no great change from his predecessors. By the fifth or sixth year of his reign, however, he changed his name to Akhenaten and began a policy of sweeping reforms that sent the Egyptian empi
The Czech Republic may not be known for its castles like other countries are, but these 10 amazing castles will have visitors feeling as though they are part of a rich, old, fairytale.
