Arrest and Movement: An Essay on Space and Time in the Representational Art of the Ancient Near EastHarvard University Press, 1987 - 222 pagina's The beauty of Egyptian, Babylonian, and Cretan art is shot through with oddity. However much we are fascinated by the ancient works, we find ourselves wondering what precisely the artists meant when they rendered objects and indicated spatial relations the way they did. Arrest and Movement is the only book to analyze pre-Greek art in terms of issues such as space and narrative. It is a landmark book that will bring to students and museum-goers deeper understanding of this eloquent but seemingly eccentric art. |
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PREFACE page | xxiii |
THE PRE AND PROTOHISTORIC PERIOD | 15 |
THE OLD KINGDOM | 28 |
THE MIDDLE KINGDOM | 63 |
the Period of Reaction E The Development of the Royal | 78 |
THE NEW KINGDOM | 92 |
THE INTEGRATION OF FIGURE AND DESIGN | 145 |
SECULAR AND CONSECRATORY MOTIFS | 157 |
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