Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art /

Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art /

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Other Authors: Brown, Brian A., Feldman, Marian H.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Boston : De Gruyter, [2014].

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Art, Middle Eastern.
Art, Ancient > Middle East.

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Call Number: N5345 .C76 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction /
  • Marian H. Feldman
  • I. Defining the Field : Archaeology and Politics in Iraq /
  • Lamia al-Gailani Werr
  • Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures /
  • Oscar White Muscarella
  • Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings /
  • Constance von Rüden
  • Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean /
  • Ann C. Gunter
  • II. Technologies and Practices of Artistic Production: The Historiography of the Concept of "Workshop" in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History) /
  • Silvana Di Paolo
  • The Impact of the "Portable": Integrating "Minor Arts" into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon /
  • Allison Karmel Thomason
  • The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the "Phoenician" Bowls /
  • Francesca Onnis
  • Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period /
  • Yelena Rakic
  • Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving /
  • Joanna S. Smith
  • III. Text and Image: Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia /
  • Cory D. Crawford
  • Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East /
  • Karen Sonik
  • Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts /
  • Jennifer C. Ross
  • Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings /
  • Melissa Eppihimer
  • Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs /
  • Chikako E. Watanabe
  • IV. Social Identities: Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE /
  • Sarah B. Graff
  • Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c.883
  • 627 BCE /
  • Amy Rebecca Gansell
  • Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion /
  • Aubrey Baadsgaard
  • Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia /
  • Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper
  • The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History /
  • Mark B. Garrison
  • Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State /
  • Brian A. Brown
  • V. Religion, Ritual and Politics: Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts /
  • Claudia E. Suter
  • A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art /
  • Tallay Ornan
  • When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin /
  • Anne Porter
  • Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art /
  • Paul Collins
  • The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture /
  • Jean M. Evans
  • VI. Making and Defining Space: A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla /
  • Alice A. Petty
  • The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace /
  • David Kertai
  • The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual /
  • Ann Shafer
  • Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun /
  • Javier Álvarez-Mon
  • Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire /
  • Henry P. Colburn