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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.
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.
The Turkic, Uighur and Mongol peoples produced a range of arts and crafts. Ceramics, metalworking, jewelry, and artefacts in wood, glass and bone, as well as fabric-making and sculptures, were all important to these areas.
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 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.
The Art of the Northern Regions of Central Asia. From the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, art forms in Northern Central Asia underwent a series of changes, as emerging technologies and new influences from all over the world had an effect on old practices.
