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A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World 1. Aufl.
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183,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Wiley-Blackwell |
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| Veröffentl.: | 08.09.2018 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781118336755 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 632 |
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<p><b>Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Part One of the book considers the methodologies and approaches that the field has drawn on and refined. Part Two addresses terms and concepts critical to understanding the subjects and formal characteristics of the Near Eastern material record, including the intellectual frameworks within which monuments have been approached and interpreted. Part Three surveys the field’s most distinctive and characteristic genres, with special reference to Mesopotamian art and architecture. Part Four considers involvement with artistic traditions across a broader reach, examining connections with Egypt, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean. And finally, Part Five addresses intersections with the closely allied discipline of archaeology and the institutional stewardship of cultural heritage in the modern Middle East.</p> <p>Told from multiple perspectives, <i>A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art</i> is an enlightening, must-have book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of ancient Near East art and Near East history as well as those interested in history and art history.</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Preface xiii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xvii</p> <p>Abbreviations xix</p> <p>1 The “Art” of the “Ancient Near East” 1<br /><i>Ann C. Gunter</i></p> <p><b>PART I Approaches and Methods of Analysis and Interpretation 23</b></p> <p>2 Art and Material Culture 25<br /><i>David Wengrow</i></p> <p>3 Meaning and Interpretation 49<br /><i>Astrid Nunn</i></p> <p>4 Style 75<br /><i>Margaret Cool Root</i></p> <p>5 Connoisseurship and Classification 103<i><br />Eleonora Pappalardo</i></p> <p>6 Visual Culture 129<br /><i>Sarah B. Graff</i></p> <p>7 Technical Examination and Material Analysis 153<br /><i>Deborah Schorsch</i></p> <p>8 Gender and Sexuality 179<br /><i>John D. M. Green</i></p> <p>9 Semiotics, Reception Theory, and Poststructuralism 209<i><br />Marlies Heinz</i></p> <p><b>PART II Critical Terms and Concepts 231</b></p> <p>10 Representation 233<br /><i>Dominik Bonatz and Marlies Heinz</i></p> <p>11 Narrative 261<br /><i>Paul Collins</i></p> <p>12 Ideology 283<br /><i>Beate Pongratz‐Leisten</i></p> <p>13 Ritual 309<br /><i>Carolyn Nakamura</i></p> <p>14 Agency 333<br /><i>Sophy Downes<br /></i><br />15 Aesthetics 359<br /><i>Gebhard J. Selz</i></p> <p><b>PART III Materials, Media, and Artistic Environments 383</b></p> <p>16 Statuary and Reliefs 385<br /><i>Claudia E. Suter</i></p> <p>17 Glyptic 411<br /><i>Adelheid Otto</i></p> <p>18 Religious Architecture 433<br /><i>Jean M. Evans</i></p> <p>19 Palaces and Elite Houses 457<br /><i>Andreas Schachner</i></p> <p>20 Rock Reliefs and Landscape Monuments 483<br /><i>Ömür Harmansa̧ h</i></p> <p>21 Reconstructing Artistic Environments 507<br /><i>Mehmet‐Ali Ataç</i></p> <p><b>PART IV Interactions with Neighboring Regions and Artistic Traditions 531</b></p> <p>22 The Ancient Near East and Egypt 533<br /><i>Betsy M. Bryan</i></p> <p>23 The Ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Aegean 565<br /><i>Marian H. Feldman</i></p> <p>24 Near Eastern Art in the Iron Age Mediterranean 585<br /><i>James Whitley</i></p> <p><b>PART V Intersections with Archaeology, Collecting, and Cultural Heritage 613</b></p> <p>25 Archaeology and the Art of the Ancient Near East 615<br /><i>D. T. Potts</i></p> <p>26 Cultural Heritage across the Middle East, Ancient and Modern 637<br /><i>Geoff Emberling and Katharyn Hanson</i></p> <p>Index 661</p>
<p><b>Ann C. Gunter, PhD,</b> is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. She is also the former curator of ancient Near Eastern art at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, where she organized numerous exhibitions.</p>
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