Bilderwelten : Ägyptische Bilder und ägyptologische Kunst : Vorarbeiten für eine bildwissenschaftliche Ägyptologie / von Kai Widmaier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Widmaier, Kai, author.

Series:

Probleme der Ägyptologie ; Band 35.

Probleme Der Ägyptologie, 0169-9601 ; Band 35

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Art, Egyptian.

Art, Ancient--Egypt.

Art, Ancient.

Art--History--Methodology.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (669 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2017

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Language Note:

Summary also in English.

Summary:

Egyptologists have been debating for decades about whether or not Egyptian images classify as art . Nevertheless, the term ‘art’ still serves as a guiding concept for Egyptology. Kai Widmaier offers an overview of how different art-historical interpretive methods influence Egyptological research. His study demonstrates that, due to its adherence to the term art , Egyptology has considerably dissociated Egyptian images from their original contexts. Bilderwelten combines the analysis of Egyptian images from the 6th to the 18th Dynasty with methodological reflection. This leads to both a new terminology of style as well as to an alternative approach to Egyptian images. By differentiating systematically between Egyptian images and Egyptological art , this book lays the foundation for an Egyptology that follows the path of Visual Studies instead of adhering to questionable art-historical methods.

Contents:

Front Matter

Einleitung

Ägyptische Kunst: Diskussion um einen Forschungsgegenstand

Stil und Geschichte: Zur Bildkultur der 6.–12. Dynastie und ihren ägypt(olog)ischen Kontexten

Rückschau und Ausblick

Glossar

Literaturverzeichnis

Indexes

Tafeln.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34774-7

OCLC:

993768725

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004347748 DOI