A companion to ancient Near Eastern art / edited by Ann C Gunter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gunter, Ann Clyburn, 1951- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Middle Eastern.

Art, Ancient--Middle East.

Art, Ancient.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

xviii, 677 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, [2019]

Summary:

This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around 330 BCE. It describes and examines the field from a variety of critical perspectives: across approaches and interpretive frameworks, key explanatory concepts, materials and selected media and formats, and zones of interaction. This important work also addresses both traditional and emerging categories of material, intellectual perspectives, and research priorities. The book covers geography and chronology, context and setting, medium and scale, while acknowledging the diversity of regional and cultural traditions and the uneven survival of evidence.

Contents:

The "Art" of the "Ancient Near East" / Ann C. Gunter p.1

Art and material culture / David Wengrow

Meaning and interpretation / Astrid Nunn

Style / Margaret Cool Root

Connoisseurship and classification / Eleonora Pappalardo

Visual culture / Sarah B. Graff

Technical examination and material analysis / Deborah Schorsch

Gender and sexuality / John D. M. Green

Semiotics, reception theory, and poststructuralism / Marlies Heinz

Representation / Dominik Bonatz and Marlies Heinz

Narrative / Paul Collins

Ideology / Beate Pongratz-Leisten

Ritual / Carolyn Nakamura

Agency / Sophy Downes

Aesthetics / Gebhard J. Selz

Statuary and reliefs / Claudia E. Suter

Glyptic / Adelheid Otto

Religious architecture / Jean M. Evans

Palaces and elite houses / Andreas Schachner

Rock reliefs and landscape monuments / Ömür Harmansa̧h

Reconstructing artistic environments / Mehmet-Ali Ataç

The ancient Near East and Egypt / Betsy M. Bryan

The ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Aegean / Marian H. Feldman

Near Eastern Art in the Iron Age Mediterranean / James Whitley

Archaeology and the art of the ancient Near East / D. T. Potts

Cultural heritage across the Middle East, ancient and modern / Geoff Emberling and Katharyn Hanson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Companion to ancient Near Eastern art.

ISBN:

9781118301258

1118301250

OCLC:

1031431681

Publisher Number:

40028702002