Object biographies : collaborative approaches to ancient Mediterranean art / edited by John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), creator.

Contributor:

Hopkins, John North, editor.

Costello, Sarah Kielt, 1971- editor.

Davis, Paul Ramey, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Ancient--Mediterranean Region.

Art, Ancient.

Art, Ancient--Expertising--Mediterranean Region.

Antiquities.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Mediterranean Region.

Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.).

Physical Description:

xv, 295 pages : illustrations (some colour), color map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Houston : The Menil Collection, [2021]

Summary:

This innovative presentation of ancient objects in the Menil Collection offers a new model for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Editors John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis with 11 additional authors employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and known provenance to gain insight into both the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly about archaeology, art history, and collecting practices. As they take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste, these essays bring to life works that are often consigned to either the imperial past or conceptual limbo and introduce a fresh framework through which to engage with the multilayered history that these objects represent.

Contents:

Foreword / Rebecca Rabinow

Acknowledgments / Paul R. Davis, John North Hopkis, Sarah Kielt Costello

Introduction : The long biographies of ancient objects / Sarah Kielt Costello, Paul R. Davis, John North Hopkins

"Who was king? Who was not king?" (Re)writing the biography of a votive figure / Sarah Kielt Costello

Decapitated : reassembling and reassessing the lives of two sculpted heads / John North Hopkins

Greek geometric bronzes and the consequences of esteem : the case of the Menil Fawn / Susan Langdon

Collecting Greek antiquities in the 1960s : a group of early Greek bronze horses in the Menil collection / Nassos Papalexandrou

Out of Egypt : provenance, racial representation, and miniature images of Nubians in the Menil Collection / Jennifer Gates-Foster

The twentieth century life of a "Hellenistic" or "Imperial Roman" statue of a bull / Paul R. Davis

The fragmentary lintel of Ramesses-nakht and Usermaatre-nakht : a case study in provenance, old and new / Betsy M. Bryan

Griffins in the Menil Collection : architectural revetment reliefs from Turkey in the light of problems of provenience, provenance, and presentation / Nassos Papalexandrou

Provenance research and the Ancient Mediterranean Collection in the San Antonio Museum of Art / Jessica Powers

The antiquities provenance project at the J. Paul Getty Museum / David Saunders, Judith Barr, and Nicole Budrovich

Collecting antiquities since 2008 : a look at guidelines and best practices for American museums / Victoria S. Reed

Archaeology, museums, and war in the twenty-first century / C. Brian Rose

Telling stories of objects / Morag M. Kersel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780300250879

0300250878

OCLC:

1203028858

Publisher Number:

99990375347