Ethiopia at the crossroads /
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"Ethiopia at the Crossroads celebrates the artistic traditions of Ethiopia from their origins to the present day, spanning over 1,700 years of history. Seated in the Horn of Africa between Europe and the Middle East, the country is an intersection of diverse climates, religions, and cultures. This landmark catalogue examines Ethiopian art as representative of the nation's notable history and demonstrates the enormous cultural significance of this often-overlooked African nation through the themes of cross-cultural exchange and the human role in the creation and movement of art objects. It features more than 250 images of objects including painted icons, illuminated manuscripts, coins, textiles, metalwork, and carved wooden crosses in addition to works by contemporary Ethiopian artists. Because the artistic production of Ethiopia is still relatively unknown to Western audiences, Ethiopia at the Crossroads provides an accessible overview of the history and culture of the region. The book includes a series of scholarly essays that expand upon the themes and historical moments of encounter between Ethiopia and surrounding cultures, as well as an illustrated checklist of objects in the exhibition and technical findings of the Walters conservation team"--
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391 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-383) and index. :
9780300272796
Signifying place and space : world perspectives of rock art and landscape /
: "This book is the product of a number of conference sessions run between 1997 and 1999 ; the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference at Bournemouth and Birmingham and the IRAC (International Rock Art Congress) held in Vila Real, Portugal in 1998" -- page vii. : vii, 171 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 1841710989
Animals, gods and men from East to West : papers on archaeology and history in honour of Roberta Venco Ricciardi /
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The 21 articles collected in this commemorative volume centre on animals in relation to men and gods.
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OCLC 853508284 :
x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781407311340 :
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/staffView?searchId=3442&recPointer=0&recCount=25&searchType=0&bibId=17817016
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A guide to the fourth, fifth and sixth Egyptian rooms, and the Coptic room : a series of collections of small Egyptian antiquities, which illustrate the manners and customs, the arts and crafts...
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At head of title : British Museum.
Includes index.
Preface signed : E. A. Wallis Budge. :
xvi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 373-376.
From Dura to Sepphoris : studies in Jewish art and society in late antiquity /
: Includs papers from the twelfth World Congresses of Jewish Studies , held in Jerusalem in July 1997, and a conference at the Jewish Museum in New York, held in Sept.1997. : 239 pages : ill (some color), maps ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 1887829407
The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia, A Study in the Ecology of Belief.
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Central to this study is the image of the deer within the iconography of the Early Nomads of South Siberia. By examining the symbolic structures revealed in the art and archaeology of the Early Nomads, the author challenges existing theories regarding Early Nomadic cosmology. The reconstruction of meanings embedded in the deer image carries the investigation back to rock carvings, paintings, and monolithic stelae of South Siberia and northern Central Asia, from the Neolithic period down through the early Iron Age. The succession of images dominating that artistic tradition is considered against the background of cultures - including the Baykal Neolithic Afanasevo, Okunev, Andronovo, and Karasuk - evolving from a hunting-fishing dependency to a dependency on livestock. The archaic mythic traditions of specific Siberian groups are also found to lend critical detail to the changing symbolic systems of South Siberia.
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1 online resource. :
9789004378780
Ancient Egyptian prisoner statues : fragments of the late Old Kingdom /
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"During the Old Kingdom, the ancient Egyptians constructed elaborately decorated mortuary monuments for their pharaohs. By the late Old Kingdom (ca. 2435-2153 BCE), these pyramid complexes began to contain a new and unique type of statue, the so-called prisoner statues. Despite being known to Egyptologists for decades, these statues of kneeling, bound foreign captives have been only partially documented, and questions surrounding their use, treatment, and exact meaning have remained unanswered. Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues-the first comprehensive analysis of the prisoner statues-addresses this gap, demonstrating that the Egyptians conceived of and used the prisoner statues differently over time as a response to contemporary social, cultural, and historical changes. In the process, the author contributes new data and interpretations on topics as diverse as the purpose and function of the pyramid complex, the ways in which the Egyptians understood and depicted ethnicity, and the agency of artists in ancient Egypt. Ultimately, this volume provides a fuller understanding of not only the prisoner statues but also the Egyptian late Old Kingdom as a whole"--
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xv, 219 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (black-and-white) ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781948488877
1948488876
Martin Heidegger 1889-1976 : Filosofische weerklank in de Lage Landen /
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Redaktion: A. Bosse, L.R.G. Decloedt, P.A. Delvaux, J. Enklaar-Lagendijk, J. Ester, G. van Gemert, E.K.E. Tax Series discontinued
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1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004613089
Epic Narratives in the Hoysaḷa Temples : The Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata and Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Haḷebīd, Belūr and Amṛtapura /
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This volume is a detailed exposition of the visual retellings from the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata and Bhāgavata Purāṇa on specific South Indian Hoysaḷa temples. The first part of the book deals with the Amṛteśvara temple, particularly its narrative panels depicting the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata and Bhāgavata Purāṇa. The text is a résumé of episodes paired with photographs which illustrate and review the visual retellings and explore Indian techniques of visual narrative. Corollary material from other Hoysaḷa temples with narrative reliefs, including new sites, is presented in the second part. There are very few published contextual studies of Indian narrative sculptures, and so the book is a contribution to the documentation of Indian medieval art, examining visual narratives within the context of the Hindu temple. The book is illustrated with 150 photographs.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-271) and index. :
9789004378964 :
0169-8834 ;
Lux in tenebris : the visual and the symbolic in western esotericism /
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Lux in Tenebris is a collection of eighteen original interdisciplinary essays that address aspects of the verbal and visual symbolism in the works of significant figures in the history of Western Esotericism, covering such themes as alchemy, magic, kabbalah, angels, occult philosophy, Platonism, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy. Part I: Middle Ages andamp; Early Modernity ranges from Gikatilla, Ficino, Camillo, Agrippa, Weigel, Böhme, Yvon, and Swedenborg, to celestial divination in Russia. Part II: Modernity andamp; Postmodernity moves from occultist thinkers Schwaller de Lubicz and Evola to esotericism in literature, art, and cinema, in the works of Colquhoun, Degouve de Nuncques, Bruskin, Doitschinoff, and Pérez-Reverte, with an essay on esoteric theories of colour. Contributors are: Michael J.B. Allen, Susanna Åkerman, Lina Bolzoni, Aaron Cheak, Robert Collis, Francesca M. Crasta, Per Faxneld, Laura Follesa, Victoria Ferentinou, Joshua Gentzke, Joscelyn Godwin, Hans Thomas Hakl, Theodor Harmsen, Elke Morlok, Noel Putnik, Jonathan Schorsch, György Szönyi, Carsten Wilke, and Thomas Willard.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004334953 :
1871-1405 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
A cemetery of palace attendants including G2084-2099, G2230+2231, and G2240 ; based upon the Recording of the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition : George Andrew Reisner, Mohammed...
: based upon the Recording of the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition : George Andrew Reisner, Mohammed Said Ahmed, Norman de Garis Davis, William Stevenson Smith, and others (1905-1906 and 1936-1939) : xxvi, 175 pages, 210 pages of plates (some folded) illustrations (some color), plans 34cm : The series is edited by Peter Der Manuellian and William Kelly Simpson. Plans on lining papers. : 087-846-3852