Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art

by Roxann Prazniak

Book Overview

An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of the secular within received cosmologies, human agency in history, and naturalism in the representation of social and organic environments all appear with consistency across diverse venues. Common...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824889908
• ISBN13: 9780824889906
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"