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| Wolfgang Tiemann |
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| Migrating Media through 1250 Years |
Near Samarkand in 751 ...
... a man named Du Hwai in a prison camp started to keep a diary. Du
Hwai was one of the Chinese soldiers who were defeated and arrested at the
famous battle of Talas. [... more ...]
From Bejing to Nuremberg ...
... it takes about 600 years to go. "papeRRoads" fosters a dream - an
art project to reconstruct the peaceful diffusion of papermaking
along the silk road, through Arabia and the Mediterranean world. [... more ...]
Wolfgang Tiemann, the artist ...
...celebrates 1250 Years of Papermaking in the West.
"PapeRRoads" is the name of an art project which throws a
bridge between Germany, where papermills did not occur before
the late 14th century, and Samarkand, the first capital of
papermaking outside of China in the middle of the 8th century. [... more ...]
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