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Title: Tribal Rugs: Treasures of the Black Tent by Brian W. MacDonald ISBN: 1-85149-268-2 Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $89.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Infinite Landscapes Woven From Wool
Comment: To begin with, Tribal Rugs: Treasures Of The Black Tent is by design a comprehensive reference work. Dealers and collectors will be well-served by Brian W. MacDonald's exhaustive survey of the carpets of Central Asia. But as one spends time hypnotically absorbed in the patterns of the incredibly intricate weavings presented in these pages, and learns a bit about the tribal cultures of the people who created them, one sees that Tribal Rugs is also a profound portrait of a highly evolved art form. An art form that is not pursued in order to create art. But rather unselfconciously, in a utilitarian way. Because the weaving is always done for practical purposes, to meet the needs of the family as it travels from region to region throughout the year. Which makes the infinite patience and unstinting devotion to aesthetic ideal with which the work is accomplished that much more remarkable. My thought about these rugs, about their visual and emotional impact, is that each depicts a rarefied landscape of uncompromising beauty. A landscape that intrinsically possesses meaning and maybe even sacred qualities (many weavings are in fact uniquely configured as prayer rugs). To study carefully these landscapes reveals a world of otherness that endlessly fascinates, captivates, and ultimately challenges thoroughly perceptual complacency with salubrious result.
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Title: Tribal Rugs : A Complete Guide to Nomadic and Village Carpets (Tribal Rugs) by James Opie ISBN: 0821225472 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Oriental Rugs of the Silk Route: Culture, Process, and Selection by John B. Gregorian ISBN: 0847822214 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Illustrated Buyer's Guide to Oriental Carpets (2nd Edition) by J. R. Azizollahoff ISBN: 0764314874 Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Oriental Carpets : A Complete Guide - The Classic Reference (Oriental Carpets) by Murray L. Eiland, Murray Eiland III ISBN: 0821225480 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 15 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by TOM BISSELL ISBN: 0375421300 Publisher: Pantheon Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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