Subject matter as currency

The world was selling when there wasn’t any money. The subject, its beauty and rareness, played a key role in human exchange processes and formed both dominant civilizations and their dependent peoples. The book consists of two cross-cutting structures — a large storytelling part and a mini-gallery. The link to gallery exhibits is built through green boxes with numbers related to the corresponding museum exhibit: British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Buses, furs and fabrics formed the basis for the study of prevailing cultural paradigms and are the chapters of the book.