{"product_id":"art-of-armenia-an-introduction-hardcover","title":"Art of Armenia: An Introduction - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThough immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political \"hot zone,\" Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book presents a timely and much-needed survey of the arts of Armenia from antiquity to the early eighteenth century C.E. Divided chronologically, it brings into discussion a wide range of media, including architecture, stone sculpture, works in metal, wood, and cloth, manuscript illumination, and ceramic arts. Critically, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Armenia \u003c\/em\u003epresents this material within historical and archaeological contexts, incorporating the results of specialist literature in various languages. It also positions Armenian art within a range of broader comparative contexts including, but not limited to, the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, Byzantium, the Islamic world, Yuan-dynasty China, and seventeenth-century Europe. \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Armenia\u003c\/em\u003e offers students, scholars, and heritage readers of the Armenian community something long desired but never before available: a complete and authoritative introduction to three thousand years of Armenian art, archaeology, architecture, and design.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51220001390815,"sku":"9780190269005","price":106.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vceTgXFQZd9780190269005.webp?v=1787021768","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/art-of-armenia-an-introduction-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}