A companion to ancient Near Eastern art

Title:

Author:

Gunter, Ann Clyburn, 1951- editor.

ISBN:

9781118336755

9781118336731

9781118336564

9781118336779

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 677 pages) : illustrations, maps

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Blackwell companions to the ancient world.

Contents:

The "Art" of the "Ancient Near East" / Art and material culture / Meaning and interpretation / Style / Connoisseurship and classification / Visual culture / Technical examination and material analysis / Gender and sexuality / Semiotics, reception theory, and poststructuralism / Representation / Narrative / Ideology / Ritual / Agency / Aesthetics / Statuary and reliefs / Glyptic / Religious architecture / Palaces and elite houses / Rock reliefs and landscape monuments / Reconstructing artistic environments / The ancient Near East and Egypt / The ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Aegean / Near Eastern Art in the Iron Age Mediterranean / Archaeology and the art of the ancient Near East / Cultural heritage across the Middle East, ancient and modern

Abstract:

This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around 330 BCE. It describes and examines the field from a variety of critical perspectives: across approaches and interpretive frameworks, key explanatory concepts, materials and selected media and formats, and zones of interaction. This important work also addresses both traditional and emerging categories of material, intellectual perspectives, and research priorities. The book covers geography and chronology, context and setting, medium and scale, while acknowledging the diversity of regional and cultural traditions and the uneven survival of evidence.

Local Note:

John Wiley and Sons

Subject Term:

Art, Middle Eastern.

Art, Ancient -- Middle East.

Art moyen-oriental.

ART -- History -- General.

Geographic Term: