East of the Moon

Karen Polinger Foster (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2026
Kulturalis (Verlag)
978-1-83636-041-4 (ISBN)

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Across Cairo, Ethiopia, Iran and Central Asia, Karen Foster weaves luminous photographs and insightful text into a vivid portrait of lands rich in culture and history.

Tracing a crescent from Cairo to Khiva, art historian and archaeologist Karen Polinger Foster takes us on four unforgettable journeys East of the Moon – to Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and Central Asia – exploring commonalities and differences in thought and belief, art and architecture, language and literature, tradition and innovation. As her travel experiences unfolded, overarching themes emerged, often from serendipitous inspiration and encounters. From these she has fashioned a beguiling kaleidoscope of photo essays which tessellate into a compelling whole. With a remarkable gift for the telling detail and a photographic eye at once incisive and discreet, Foster’s elegant text and stunning images invite us to a place which, in her words, ‘exists in the atlas of the mind, at the intersection of image and imagination’.

A specialist in the art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East and Bronze Age Aegean, Karen Polinger Foster taught for many years in the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and History of Art at Yale University. While she has published numerous books and articles in her scholarly field, East of the Moon is her first photo essay venture.

Travelling East of the Moon vi
Acknowledgements x
Further Reading xii
Map xv
Cairo the Incandescent 1
Emblems of Ethiopia 35
Through a Persian Looking Glass 71
The Artful Steppe 107

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2026
Sprache	englisch
Maße	245 x 295 mm
Gewicht	1280 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Afrika
	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Asien
ISBN-10	1-83636-041-X / 183636041X
ISBN-13	978-1-83636-041-4 / 9781836360414
Zustand	Neuware