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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brian A. Brown , Marian H. FeldmanPublisher: De Gruyter Imprint: De Gruyter Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 6.10cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 1.577kg ISBN: 9781501513206ISBN 10: 1501513206 Pages: 812 Publication Date: 20 June 2016 Recommended Age: College Graduate Student Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Table of Contents List of Contributors List of Illustrations Editors' Note Map 1. Map 2. Introduction I. Defining the Field 2. Archaeology and Politics in Iraq - Lamia al-Gailani Werr 3. Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures - Oscar Muscarella 4. Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings - Constance von Rüden 5. Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean - Ann C. Gunter II. Technologies and Practices of Artistic Production 6. The Historiography of the Concept of ""Workshop"" in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History) - Silvana Di Paolo 7. The Impact of the ""Portable"": Integrating ""Minor Arts"" into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon - Allison Karmel Thomason 8. The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the ""Phoenician"" Bowls - Francesca Onnis 9. Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period - Yelena Rakic 10. Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving - Joanna S. Smith III. Text and Image 11. Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia - Cory D. Crawford 12. Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East - Karen Sonik 13. Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts - Jennifer C. Ross 14. Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings - Melissa Eppihimer 15. Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs - Chikako E. Watanabe IV. Social Identities 16. Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE - Sarah B. Graff 17. Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c. 883-627 BCE - Amy Rebecca Gansell 18. Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion - Aubrey Baadsgaard 19. Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia - Stephanie Langin-Hooper 20. The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History - Mark B. Garrison 21. Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State - Brian A. Brown V. Religion, Ritual and Politics 22. Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts - Claudia E. Suter 23. A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art - Tallay Ornan 24. When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin - Anne Porter 25. Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art - Paul Collins 26. The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture - Jean M. Evans VI. Making and Defining Space 27. A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla - Alice A. Petty 28. The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace - David Kertai 29. The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual - Ann Shafer 30. Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun - Javier Álvarez-Mon 31. Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire - Henry P. Colburn"ReviewsAuthor InformationBrian A. Brown, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Marian H. Feldman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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