Uzbekistan: Masterpieces Of the Silk Road

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Uzbekistan: Masterpieces of the Silk Road displays the ultimate collection of archaeological finds from across Uzbekistan, whose location along the Great Silk Road brought together Mediterranean, Chinese, Persian, and Indian cultures, as well Buddhist, Islamic, and pagan influences. The rich dive...
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Yaffa Assouline has worked as a journalist, consultant and creative art director. She specializes in innovative and made-to-measure publishing. She created the first luxury website on the internet, luxuryculture.com, and developed the first in-flight magazine, Air France Madame, before going on to create customized books and magazines. She authored the book MIA: I. M. Pei, a showcase of architect I. M. Pei’s work for the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by photographer Keiichi Tahara. In collaboration with the Qatar Museums Authority, where she worked as the creative art director and a senior adviser, she supervised the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art. She is the author of the books Uzbekistan: The Road to Samarkand, Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde Orientalists, Uzbekistan: Russian Avant-Garde, Uzbekistan Living Treasures: Celebration of Craftsmanship and Uzbekistan Silk & Gold: The Magnificent Art of Costume, all by Assouline.

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Uzbekistan: Masterpieces Of the Silk Road

$160

All around reigned the dead silence of the desert, underscoring a strange sense of the ghostliness of the surrounding realm of fairy-tale cities and villages long forgotten by man.

— S. P. Tolstov, Russian archaeologist

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Page count

224 pages

Language

English

Released on

September 2024

Dimensions

W 11 x L 14 x D 3 in

Cover materials

Hardcover in luxury jacket

ISBN

9781649800718

Weight

3.0 lb

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