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Violence and power in ancient Egypt : image and ideology before the New Kingdom / Laurel Bestock.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection N5350 .B39 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bestock, Laurel, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in Egyptology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Egyptian.
- Art, Ancient--Egypt.
- Art, Ancient.
- Egypt.
- Violence in art.
- Egypt--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
- Summary:
- Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt examines the use of Egyptian pictures of violence prior to the New Kingdom. Starting with the assertion that making and displaying such images served as a tactic of power, related to but separate from the actual practice of violence, the book explores the development and deployment of this imagery across different contexts. By comparatively utilizing violent images from a variety of other times and cultures, the book asks that we consider not only how Egyptian imagery was related to Egyptian violence, but also why people create pictures of violence and place them where they do, and how such images communicate what to whom. By cataloging and querying Egyptian imagery of violence from different periods and different contexts-royal tombs, divine temples, the landscape, portable objects, and private tombs-Violence and Power highlights the nuances of the relationship between aspects of royal ideology, art, and its audiences in the first half of pharaonic Egyptian history. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Picturing violence
- The origins of violent imagery
- The violence inherent in the system: imagery and royal ideology in the period of state formation
- To live forever: the decoration of royal mortuary complexes
- Uniter of the Two Lands: images of violence in divine temples
- The preservation of order: images in the landscape
- Out and about: images of violence on portable objects
- Who is who? private monumental images of war
- Violence, power, ideology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138685055
- 1138685054
- OCLC:
- 985447231
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