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Museums and the Ancient Middle East

Curatorial Practice and Audiences

Herausgeber: Emberling, Geoff; Petit, Lucas P.

Beschreibung

Museums and the Ancient Middle East comprises a remarkable group of case studies from many of the world's leading museums, including the British Museum, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin.

Autor

Geoff Emberling is Associate Research Scientist at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan. He has done curatorial work for most of his career, first as Assistant Curator in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, then as Museum Director and Chief Curator at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. He has also developed exhibits as consulting curator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, and most recently at the Detroit Institute of Arts. He is also a field archaeologist who has directed projects in Syria and Sudan. Lucas P. Petit is curator of the Near Eastern Department at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. He curated several successful blockbuster exhibitions including "Petra. Wonder in the Desert" (2013-14) and "Nineveh. Heart of an Ancient Empire" (2017-18), and was responsible for renewing the permanent Middle Eastern galleries. He has had positions at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, and at Leiden University. He has been involved in various archaeological fieldwork projects throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Currently, he co-directs the excavations at Tell Damiyah in Jordan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9780815349723
• ISBN-10: 0815349726
• Artikelnr.: 54339415