Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art / edited by Brian A. Brown and Marian H. Feldman

Object Details

editor

Brown, Brian A (Brian Ashley)

Feldman, Marian H.

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

2014

Type

Books

Physical description

xxvi, 812 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Place

Middle East

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Art, Middle Eastern

Art, Ancient

Record ID

siris_sil_1032728

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0