A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art

Melinda K. Hartwig

John Wiley & Sons, 1 dec 2014 - 624 pagina's

A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art.

• Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences
• Features contributions from top scholars in their respective fields of expertise relating to ancient Egyptian art
• Provides overviews of past and present scholarship and suggests new avenues to stimulate debate and allow for critical readings of individual art works
• Explores themes and topics such as methodological approaches, transmission of Egyptian art and its connections with other cultures, ancient reception, technology and interpretation,
• Provides a comprehensive synthesis on a discipline that has diversified to the extent that it now incorporates subjects ranging from gender theory to ‘X-ray fluorescence’ and ‘image-based interpretations systems’

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Inhoudsopgave

Notes on Contributors	ix

Foreword	xiii

Preface	xv

Acknowledgments	xvii

List of Abbreviations	xix

List of Illustrations	xxi

List of Plates	xxxi

Chronology of Egyptian Kings	xxxiii

Part I Methodological Approaches	23

Part II Materials and Mediums	189

Part III Concepts in Art	307

Part IV Interconnections with the Larger World	397

Part V Reception of Ancient Egyptian Art in the Modern World	463

Part VI Technology and Interpretation	483

Index	545

Supplemental Images	574

Chronology of Kushite Rulers	xli

Maps	xlv

Chapter 1 What Is Art?	1

EULA	582

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Melinda Hartwig is the Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, and Professor Emerita, Georgia State University. She is the author of Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Thebes, 1419-1372 BCE (2004).

Bibliografische gegevens

Titel	A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Redacteur	Melinda K. Hartwig
Uitgever	John Wiley & Sons, 2014
ISBN	1118325095, 9781118325094
Lengte	624 pagina's

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