Informationen zum Autor Edmond Y. Azadian is Advisor to the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum and Advisor from the Diaspora to the Ministry of Culture of Armenia. His books include Portraits and Profiles and History on the Move. Sylvie L. Merian is a librarian at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York and author of many articles on Armenian arts and artifacts. She holds a Ph.D. in Armenian Studies with a specialization in Armenian manuscripts and codicology. Lucy Ardash is Director of the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum. Klappentext Essays by nine scholars of Armenian art and artifacts shed light not only on the artistic significance of these objects but on their cultural context as well. "For centuries Armenia did not exist as an independent state, yet its clerics, poets, artists, and musicians maintained and cultivated a cultural heritage of extraordinary beauty. A people can survive, even thrive, under alien imperial powers, if its sense of identity is continued. Here we see how manuscript illuminators, church builders, and writers carried on the idea of Armenian civilization through a millennium. This exquisite volume brings to us a vivid portrait of a people whom no empire was able to extinguish. The Manoogian Museum and this beautiful book reveal a glorious, gorgeous past of a determined people." - Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan Zusammenfassung The Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Michigan holds the gathering of Armenian art and artifacts outside Armenia, including illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, rugs and carpets, and more. This book features more than 160 of the museum's pieces, each reproduced in color and accompanied by a detailed entry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Thomas F. Mathews Introduction Edmond Y. Azadian Chapter 1. Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed Books Sylvie L. Merian Chapter 2. Ceramics Amy S. Landau Chapter 3. Inscribed Rugs Vahram Taitikian with S. Peter Cowe Chapter 4. Ancient and Medieval Coins Levon Saryan Chapter 5. Paintings and Sculpture Garabed Belian Chapter 6. Ancient Objects Alina Ayvazian and Felix I. Ter-Martirosov Chapter 7. Garments, Lace, and Embroidery Sylvie L. Merian Chapter 8. Sacred and Religious Objects Amy S. Landau, Theo Maarten van Lint, and Sylvie L. Merian Chapter 9. Practical and Personal Metal Objects Sylvie L. Merian Maps Timeline of Armenian History Glossary of Armenian Terms Notes Bibliography Appendix I: Key to Use of Armenian Letters to Represent Numerals Appendix II: Indo-European Languages Diagram Acknowledgments About the Contributors ...

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Essays by nine scholars of Armenian art and artifacts shed light not only on the artistic significance of these objects but on their cultural context as well.

Zusammenfassung
The Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Michigan holds the gathering of Armenian art and artifacts outside Armenia, including illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, rugs and carpets, and more. This book features more than 160 of the museum's pieces, each reproduced in color and accompanied by a detailed entry.

Inhalt

Foreword Thomas F. Mathews
Introduction Edmond Y. Azadian
Chapter 1. Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed Books Sylvie L. Merian
Chapter 2. Ceramics Amy S. Landau
Chapter 3. Inscribed Rugs Vahram Taitikian with S. Peter Cowe
Chapter 4. Ancient and Medieval Coins Levon Saryan
Chapter 5. Paintings and Sculpture Garabed Belian
Chapter 6. Ancient Objects Alina Ayvazian and Felix I. Ter-Martirosov
Chapter 7. Garments, Lace, and Embroidery Sylvie L. Merian
Chapter 8. Sacred and Religious Objects Amy S. Landau, Theo Maarten van Lint, and Sylvie L. Merian
Chapter 9. Practical and Personal Metal Objects Sylvie L. Merian
Maps
Timeline of Armenian History
Glossary of Armenian Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix I: Key to Use of Armenian Letters to Represent Numerals
Appendix II: Indo-European Languages Diagram
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors