Gurama is one of the oldest forms of artistic textile in the Azerbaijani people's rich arsenal of traditional arts. This book by PhD in Art Studies Amina Melikova is dedicated to this very craft. This book highlights the various aspects of the development and functioning of this form of craft.…
Created in the heart of the living history of Baku, in the Old City, the new creative space Zaman Art Gallery carries the idea of combining time and art, the infinity of beautiful. Zaman Art Gallery holds a unique creative atmosphere, inspiring to create. The gallery is imbued with the…
Rock drawings have been discovered on all inhabited continents of the world, representing an extremely rich and deeply significant extensive “art gallery”. Over many centuries, a large number of works by unknown antiquity artists who skillfully depicted the various parties of life and life of our forefathers have been collected.…
The protagonist of the photo-album is Baku, a magnificent city harmonizing the historical architecture and the ultramodern buildings. Magnificence of the city is generated by this harmony. Modern Baku reflects the splendor, and the history of the old Baku. Baku, first of all, is an industrial center with sincere and…
Baku is unique not only for its natural and geographical location, historical development starting from the Middle Ages till the early XX century, unique not only as a city on the territory of which artistic cultures of the East and West come across, but it is unique as an architectural…
OVER the centuries, the history and culture of Georgia and Azerbaijan have entwined and overlapped with each other, to the enrichment and development of both. It is cause of great pleasure that a new page is being a written in the long history of the friendship of these two nations;…
In accordance with the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan of January 31, 2008, the building of the Cultural Centre of the Ministry of National Security was allocated to the MNS. The official opening ceremony of the Cultural Centre building after the extensive repair and…
Analysis of big and small towns of Azerbaijan is provided and their planification, composition and artistic sides are elucidated in the monograph. A special place in the works was assigned to Baku as a city with a rapid development where basic principles of town-planning art of capitalistic epoch are widely…
This book is the continuation of a larger project called "Azerbaijani carpets and their schools”. The book features Nakhchivan's historical development and cultural achievements in general, common characteristics of Nakhchivan carpets, with pictures and information about them, and the introduction of Nakhchivan carpets held in a number of collections throughout…
Ganja, the second largest city of our country, which entered the history as the first capital of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, has rich architectural traditions. The history of these traditions is covered in the study “Pages of architectural chronicle of Ganja of the XIX-XX centuries” by Prof. Raiha Amenzadeh.…