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The
International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) is pleased to inform
that a project on Seljuk ceramics is being implemented in the framework of the
research program for 2022-2023. The project is being advanced by a team of researchers
from Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan with the financial support by
IICAS.
An
application was submitted to IICAS to carry out a comprehensive comparative
study of Seljuk ceramics in the regional scale and identify the research problem
of studying the entire set of glazed ceramics of the Seljuk period within a
number of areas where the peculiar “Seljuk” style was evolving. The mutual
influence of different cultures within the Seljuk space, also connected by the
routes of the actively functioning Silk Road, led to the emergence of an
original style in decorative and applied art, in particular, glazed ceramics.
The high level of artistic ceramics was preconditioned by the emergence and
rise of the Seljuk Empire, the growth of cities, the rise of urban culture, the
development of trade and crafts, especially the artistic crafts of the
11th-12th centuries. The “Seljuk” style in art - in architecture, toreutics,
ceramics, etc., was widespread throughout the empire, although each region had
its own local features.
At the end
of the project, a collective monograph on ceramics of the Seljuk period of
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is anticipated to be published.
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