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Art/ifacts and artworks in the ancient world

Format:
Book
Language:
English
Imprint:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2021 and ©2021
Subject:
Art, Ancient - Middle East
Art objects, Ancient - Middle East
Art and society - Middle East - History
Middle East - Antiquities
Contributor:
Sonik, Karen, editor
Pittman, Holly, honouree
University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, publisher
ISBN:
9781949057119 and 1949057119
Description:
xl, 446 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Notes:
This volume is dedicated to Dr. Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of the Near Eastern Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). It was conceived to honor her extraordinary contributions to the field of Near Eastern studies as archaeologist, art historian, mentor, professor, and friend--Foreword
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Art/ifacts and ArtWorks : De-Colonizing the Study and Museum Display of Ancient and Non-Western Things / Karen Sonik -- Beyond Representation : The Role of Affect in Sumerian Lamenting / Paul Delnero -- Seeing and Knowing: Cultural Concepts and the Deictic Power of the Image in Mesopotamia / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- The Context(ualization) of Art in Non-Literate Societies : Images and Animal Bronzes in the Armenian Middle Bronze Age / Karen S. Rubinson -- To Be or Not to Be (Divine) : The Achaemenid King and Essential Ambiguity in Image, Text, and Historical Context / Matthew W. Waters -- Glyptic Images as Reflecting Social Order : Changes in Seal Iconographies from Egalitarian to Early Centralized Societies in Greater Mesopotamia / Marcella Frangipane -- Sealing Practices at Tal-e Bakun A : Revisiting Concepts of Social Organization and Economic Control / Barbara Helwing -- Ephemeral Artifacts : Warlock and Witch Figurines in Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals / Greta Van Buylaere -- What Lay Beneath : Queen Puabi's Garments and Her Passage to the Underworld / Rita Wright -- Assyrian Spaces : Surface and Wall as Constitutive Features in Neo-Assyrian Narrative Reliefs / Marian H. Feldman -- The Assyrian Propaganda Machine in Text and Image : The Case of Sennacherib at Tyre in 701 BCE / Joshua Jeffers -- The News from the East : Assyrian Archaeology, International Politics, and the British Press in the Victorian Age / David Kertai -- Assyrian Style and Victorian Materiality : Mesopotamia in British Souvenirs, Political Caricatures, Theatrical Productions, and the Sydenham Crystal Palace / Kevin M. McGeough
Summary:
"This volume assembles leading Near Eastern art historians, archaeologists, and philologists to examine and apply critical contemporary approaches to the arts and artifacts of the ancient Near East. The contributions in the volume, which include a comprehensive first chapter by the editor and twelve paired chapters (each of which explores a key theme of the volume through a specific case study), are divided into six sections: Representation, Context, Complexity, Materiality, Space, and Time / Afterlives. A number of sub-themes and questions also thread through the volume as a whole: how might art historical, archaeological, anthropological, and philological approaches to the Near East complement and inform each other? How do word and image relate? And how might the field of Near Eastern studies not only adapt and apply approaches developed in other fields but also contribute to critical contemporary discourses? The volume is unified both by the themes that thread through it and by the comprehensive first chapter in the volume, which explores the status of Near Eastern arts and artifacts as simultaneously non-Western and ancient and as neither of these, and which provides a larger theoretical framework for issues addressed in the volume as a whole"-- Provided by publisher
Collection:
BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:
N5345 .A955 2021
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