Format:
XXVI, 812 S.
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Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
9781614510291
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction
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I. Defining the Field: Archaeology and Politics in Iraq
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Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures
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Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings
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Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean
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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)
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The Impact of the "Portable": Integrating "Minor Arts" into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon
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The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the "Phoenician" Bowls
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Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period
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Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving
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III. Text and Image: Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia
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--Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East
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Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts
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Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings
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Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs
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IV. Social Identities: Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE
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Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c.883627 BCE
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Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion
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Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia
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The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History
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Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State
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V. Religion, Ritual and Politics: Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts
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A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art
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When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin
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Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art
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The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture
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VI. Making and Defining Space: A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla
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The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace
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The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual
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Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun
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Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781614510352
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter, 2013 ISBN 9781614510291
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Alter Orient
;
Naher Osten
;
Kunst
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