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In this stimulating book, Petya Andreeva puts forth a ground-breaking paradigm for interpreting ""animal-style art"" of the first millennium BCE. Her fine-grained analysis of visual tropes and design concepts challenges previous scholarship. The animal motifs of deer, ibex, horses and fantastical creatures become a visual language that transforms the Eurasian world.--Claudia Chang, Sweet Briar College and New York University Overall, this is an important and timely volume that offers a new perspective on the ways in which animal imagery formed a powerful ""visual language"" among Iron Age populations inhabiting the northern Eurasian region and thus played a crucial role in social identity, collective memory, and political networking.--Bryan K. Hanks, University of Pittsburgh ""Journal of Asian Studies"" Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea is an academic text and Andreeva makes few concessions to the lay reader; nevertheless, her descriptions and comparisons are so clear, that even a quick read will make the next museum visit that much more enriching and comprehensible.--Peter Gordon ""Asian Review of Books""

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Petya Andreeva is Assistant Professor of Asian Art at Vassar College. She received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Andreeva has broad research interests in the arts of ancient and medieval China and Central Asia. She is the recipient of several international awards, including the UNESCO Silk Road Research Grant, Getty-ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art, and a dissertation distinction from the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS). Her recent work has appeared in Early China, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Fashion Theory, Orientations, Dongyang Misulsahak, Sino-Platonic Papers, and several National Museum of Korea volumes. She is also the editor of the recently published volume The Zoomorphic Arts of Central Eurasia (2023).

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