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De Gruyter
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English
Pages
812

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Critical Approaches to Ancient near Eastern Art
2016, de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, De Gruyter, de Gruyter
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Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art
2014, De Gruyter
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Critical Approaches to Ancient near Eastern Art
2013, De Gruyter, Inc.
in English
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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
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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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
709.394
Library of Congress
N5345 .C76 2014, N5345 .C75 2014, N5345

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvi, 812 pages
Number of pages
812

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31167599M
Internet Archive
criticalapproach0000unse_h5b6
ISBN 10
1614510296, 1614510350, 1614510369
ISBN 13
9781614510291, 9781614510352, 9781614510369
LCCN
2013037581
OCLC/WorldCat
858975556

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