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" A Companion to Ancient near Eastern Art. "
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BL
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839738
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Gunter, Ann C.
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A Companion to Ancient near Eastern Art.
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| Publication Statement
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Newark :: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,, 2018.
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| Series Statement
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser.
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1 online resource (716 pages)
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1118336739
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: 9781118336731
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1118301250
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9781118301258
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Reception Theory: The Receiver's Role in Nonverbal Communication.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Table of Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: The "Art" of the "Ancient Near East"; Introduction; Defining the "Ancient Near East"; Periodization and Chronology of the "Ancient" Near East; Modern Frameworks for an "Ancient Near Eastern Art"; Did the Ancient Near East in Fact Produce "Art"?; Comparative Approaches; Conclusions; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; PART I: APPROACHES AND METHODS OF ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION; CHAPTER TWO: Art and Material Culture; Introduction; The Mechanical Reproduction of Images; Art, Material Culture, and Social Scale; The "Bureaucratic Eye."
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Image, Commerce, and CosmologyCult Images and the Mixture of Materials; Conclusion; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; CHAPTER THREE: Meaning and Interpretation; Introduction; New Perspectives from Anthropology and History; The Methods of Art History and the Ancient Near East; Text and Image; The "Fribourg School": The Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Iconography; The Purpose and Persistence of Images; Missing "Images" and Their Interpretation; Conclusion; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; CHAPTER FOUR: Style; Introduction; Challenges of Style for the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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Ivories of the Early First Millennium BCEA View from Abroad; Glyptic; Neo-Assyrian Reliefs; Conclusion; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; CHAPTER SIX: Visual Culture; Introduction; Hierarchies of Objects: Defining "Art"; Disembodied Images: Reconstructions and Simulacra; The Image in/on the Stone; Images as Constructions of/by Culture; Space at Babylon; Visuality; The Materiality of Gold; Conclusion: Why (Not) Visual Culture Studies?; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; CHAPTER SEVEN: Technical Examination and Material Analysis; Introduction; Dating; Analytical Tools; Visual Analysis.
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Potentials of Stylistic Analysis, I: Selected Examples from Ancient Near Eastern ArtPotentials of Stylistic Analysis, II: Ancient Near Eastern Glyptic; Seal Styles and the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE); Conclusion; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; CHAPTER FIVE: Connoisseurship and Classification; Introduction: Issues of Terminology; Connoisseurship and Classification; Connoisseurship, Classification, and Style: Passive Reflection of Normative Rules to Means of Active Communication and Information Exchange; Cases of Connoisseurship and Classification in Near Eastern Art History.
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Structural AnalysisElemental Analysis; Material Identification and Manufacture; Conclusions; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; CHAPTER EIGHT: Gender and Sexuality; Introduction; Making and Breaking the Mother Goddess Paradigm; The Emerging Male in Mesopotamian Narrative Art; Nudity and Sex: Titillation, Fertility, Protection; Gender Ambiguity and Intersexuality; Conclusions; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; CHAPTER NINE: Semiotics, Reception Theory, and Poststructuralism; Introduction; Nonverbal Communication and How It Functions; Semiotics: The World of Signs.
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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.
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Art, Ancient-- Middle East.
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Art, Middle Eastern.
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Art, Ancient.
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Art, Middle Eastern.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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709.56
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N5345.C725 2019
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