Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art / edited by Brian A. Brown and Marian H. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Brian A. (Brian Ashley), editor.

Feldman, Marian H., editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Middle Eastern.

Art, Ancient--Middle East.

Art, Ancient.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 812 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

Summary:

Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art concentrates on the visual, material, and built aspects of the Ancient Near East from the fourth millennium BCE to the Hellenistic period. Presenting innovative theoretical approaches to Ancient Near Eastern art history, this volume will be of value to scholars and students of the Ancient Near East, as well as to those interested in contemporary art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Marian H. Feldman

I. Defining the Field: Archaeology and Politics in Iraq / Lamia al-Gailani Werr

Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures / Oscar White Muscarella

Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings / Constance von Rüden

Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean / Ann C. Gunter

II. Technologies and Practices of Artistic Production: The Historiography of the Concept of "Workshop" in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History) / Silvana Di Paolo

The Impact of the "Portable": Integrating "Minor Arts" into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon / Allison Karmel Thomason

The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the "Phoenician" Bowls / Francesca Onnis

Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period / Yelena Rakic

Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving / Joanna S. Smith

III. Text and Image: Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia / Cory D. Crawford

Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East / Karen Sonik

Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts / Jennifer C. Ross

Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings / Melissa Eppihimer

Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs / Chikako E. Watanabe

IV. Social Identities: Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE / Sarah B. Graff

Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c.883

627 BCE / Amy Rebecca Gansell

Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion / Aubrey Baadsgaard

Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia / Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper

The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History / Mark B. Garrison

Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State / Brian A. Brown

V. Religion, Ritual and Politics: Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts / Claudia E. Suter

A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art / Tallay Ornan

When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin / Anne Porter

Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art / Paul Collins

The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture / Jean M. Evans

VI. Making and Defining Space: A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla / Alice A. Petty

The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace / David Kertai

The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual / Ann Shafer

Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun / Javier Álvarez-Mon

Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire / Henry P. Colburn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Also issued as an Online resource: Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art.

ISBN:

1614510296

9781614510291

OCLC:

858975556

Publisher Number:

99962206351