Splendeurs des oasis d’Ouzbékistan/The Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases, and Sur les routes de Samarcande. Merveilles de soie et d’or/On the Roads to Samarkand: Wonders of Silk and Gold, by Yannick Lintz and Rocco Rante (eds.)

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Notes

1 Translation by the author.

2 While there is a growing body of publications around the concept of “global” or “world” art history, these categories remain contested, with scholars urging for a more nuanced understanding of the terms when applied to the study of pre-Modern periods. See, for example, Jeremy Tanner, et al., “Questions on ‘World Art History’,” Perspective 2 (2014): 211–24; Bonnie Cheng, “A Camel’s Pace: A Cautionary Global,” The Medieval Globe 3, issue 2 (2017): 11–34; and Beate Fricke and Finbarr Barry Flood, “Premodern Globalism in Art History: A Conversation,” Art Bulletin 104, issue 4 (December 2022): 6–19.

3 See Catherine Holmes and Naomi Standen, “Introduction: Towards a Global Middle Ages,” Past & Present 238, issue suppl. 13 (November 2018): 2, 19.

4 Frantz Grenet, Refocusing Central Asia: Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 7 November 2013 (Paris: Collège de France, 2016), 28, http://books.openedition.org/cdf/4297.

5 Gorshenina has published an excellent analysis on this topic elsewhere: see “Uzbekistan’s ‘Cultural Inheritance’ in Constructing ‘Collective Memory’ in the Age of Independence,” in Marlene Laruelle and Aitolkyn Kourmanova, eds., Central Asia at 25: Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Collection of Essays from Central Asia (Washington, DC: Central Asia Program, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 2017): 52–55.

6 The enmeshment between these cultural projects and Mirziyoyev’s government is highlighted by the fact that the president’s daughter, Saida Mirziyoyeva, serves as Deputy Chairperson of the Council of the Foundation for the Development of Art and Culture of Uzbekistan.

7 Laura L. Adams, The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 5.

8 An otherwise excellent and thoughtful recent review in the French newspaper, Libération, described Uzbekistan as a “small country,” a puzzling description given the country’s current territory of 448,978 square km—an area roughly 25% greater than Germany—and its population of nearly 36 million; see Clémentine Mercier, « Diplomatie culturelle: A Paris, l’Ouzbékistan joue la carte des trésors », Libération, November 27, 2022, https://www.liberation.fr/culture/arts/louzbekistan-joue-la-carte-des-tresors-20221127_OCAAHJVS4NA7XG3VNGB3XDNY6U/.

9 George Baker and David Joselit, eds., “A Questionnaire on Global Methods,” October 180 (Spring 2022): 3.

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Tatsiana Zhurauliova

Tatsiana Zhurauliova is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne [13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris, France].