Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art / Brian A. Brown, Marian H. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, B. A. (Brian A.), Editor.

Feldman, Marian H., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Ancient--Middle East.

Art, Middle Eastern.

Art, Modern.

Art, Middle Eastern--Middle East.

Art, Ancient.

Local Subjects:

Art, Ancient--Middle East.

Art, Middle Eastern.

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (842 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological evidence and critically examine the historiography of the discipline itself. Not intended to be comprehensive, the volume instead captures a cross-section of the field of Ancient Near Eastern art history as its stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The volume will be of value to scholars working in the Ancient Near East as well as others interested in newer art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Contributors

List of Illustrations

Editor's Note. Maps

Introduction

Archaeology and Politics in Iraq

Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures

Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings

Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean

The Historiography of the Concept of “Workshop” in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History)

The Impact of the “Portable”: Integrating “Minor Arts” into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon

The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the “Phoenician” Bowls

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

Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving

Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia

Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East

Art’s Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts

Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings

Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal’s Reliefs

Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE

Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c. 883–627 BCE

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

Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia

` The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History

Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State

Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts

A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art

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

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

The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture

A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla

The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace

The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual

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

Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781614510352

1614510350

OCLC:

979743883