Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art
By: edited by Brian A. Brown and Marian H. Feldman
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 812
ISBN-13: 9781614510291; 9781614510352; 9781614510369
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Middle Eastern Art; Ancient Art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Marian H. Feldman; title: I. Defining the Field: Archaeology and Politics in Iraq  -- Lamia al-Gailani Werr; title: Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures  -- Oscar White Muscarella; title: Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings  -- Constance von Rüden; title: Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean  -- Ann C. Gunter; title: 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; title: The Impact of the "Portable": Integrating "Minor Arts" into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon  -- Allison Karmel Thomason; title: The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the "Phoenician" Bowls  -- Francesca Onnis; title: Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period  -- Yelena Rakic; title: Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving  -- Joanna S. Smith; title: III. Text and Image: Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia  -- Cory D. Crawford; title: --; title: Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East  -- Karen Sonik; title: Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts  -- Jennifer C. Ross; title: Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings  -- Melissa Eppihimer; title: Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs  -- Chikako E. Watanabe; title: IV. Social Identities: Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE  -- Sarah B. Graff; title: Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c.883 -- 627 BCE  -- Amy Rebecca Gansell; title: Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion  -- Aubrey Baadsgaard; title: Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia  -- Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper; title: The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History  -- Mark B. Garrison; title: Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State  -- Brian A. Brown; title: 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; title: A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art  -- Tallay Ornan; title: When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin  -- Anne Porter; title: Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art  -- Paul Collins; title: The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture  -- Jean M. Evans; title: 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; title: The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace  -- David Kertai; title: The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual  -- Ann Shafer; title: Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun  -- Javier  Álvarez-Mon; title: Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire -- Henry P. Colburn