3 options
Greek art and the Orient / Ann C. Gunter.
Table of contents only Available online
View onlinePenn Museum Library N5630 .G84 2009
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gunter, Ann Clyburn, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Ancient--Greece.
- Art, Ancient.
- Art, Greek--Middle Eastern influences.
- Art, Greek.
- Art, Assyro-Babylonian--Influence.
- Art, Assyro-Babylonian.
- Relations.
- Greece--Relations--Middle East.
- Greece.
- Middle East--Relations--Greece.
- Middle East.
- Middle East Region.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- For more than a century, scholars have recognized an "Orientalizing period" in the history of early Greek art, in which Greek artisans fashioned works of art under the stimulus of Near Eastern imports or resident foreign artisans. Previous studies have emphasized the role of Greek and Phoenician traders in bringing about these contracts with the civilizations of the ancient Near East and Egypt, debating their duration or intensity in the Greek world. In this study, Ann Gunter interrogates the categories of "Greek" and "Oriental" as problematic and shifts emphasis to modes of contact and cultural transfers within a broader regional setting. Her provocative study places Greek encounters with the Near East and Egypt in the context of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which by the 8th and 7th centuries B.C.E. extended from southern Turkey to western Iran. Using an expanded array of archaeological and textual sources, she argues that crucial aspects of the identity and meaning of foreign works of art were constructed through circumstances of transfer, ownership, and display.
- Contents:
- Art and 'Assyrianization' along the imperial frontiers
- Conceptual geographies and frameworks
- Defining and interpreting styles
- Gifts, exchange, and acquisition
- Imperial ideologies and modes of appropriation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521832571
- 0521832578
- OCLC:
- 167512809
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.