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Central Asian arts, literary, performing, and visual arts of a large portion of Asia embracing the Turkic republics (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan), Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and parts of Russia and China.
Central Asian art is visual art created in Central Asia, in areas corresponding to modern Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and parts of modern Mongolia, China and Russia.
Learn about the diverse artistic traditions of the Turkic, Uighur and Mongol peoples in Central Asia, from ceramics to sculptures. Explore how Hindu and Buddhist art influenced their crafts and decoration of pottery and tiles.
Central Asian arts - Textiles, Carpets, Ceramics: The earliest artifacts discovered in Central Asia were found in Siberia and western Turkistan and are from about the 13th millennium bce. During the millennia that followed, migrants entered the region from various directions, regardless of the geographic obstacles they encountered.
Central Asian arts - Tibetan, Buddhist, Rituals: Tibetan art comprises ancient pre-Buddhist decorative and domestic crafts and the all-pervading religious art that was gradually introduced from the 8th century onward from surrounding Buddhist countries and developed subsequently as recognizably distinct Tibetan imagery, sculpture, and ...
Central Asian art. Art in Central Asia is visual art created by the largely Turkic peoples of modern-day Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Mongolia, Tibet, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as well as parts of China and Russia.
The Collection of South, Southeast, and Central Asian Art contains one of the most important holdings in the world of art from the Indo-Asian cultural region, dating from the 4th century BC up to the present day.
