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Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea

Name: Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 49076057
Price: 55.14 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Andreeva
ISBN: 9781399528535

Andreeva

Petya (Assistant Professor of Asian Art History

Parsons School of Design

The New School

New York)

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 49076057

Publishers Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crime... Full description

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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 "animal style", 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 "Other". 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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About the book

Full name Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea

Author Andreeva, Petya (Assistant Professor of Asian Art History, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York)

Language

English

Binding Book - Paperback

Date of issue 2025

Number of pages 336

EAN 9781399528535

ISBN 139952853X

Libristo code 49076057

Publishers Edinburgh University Press

Weight 471

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