A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art

Herausgegeben von Hartwig, Melinda K.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

- 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'

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 179mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1102g
• ISBN-13: 9781444333503
• ISBN-10: 144433350X
• Artikelnr.: 41521739

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Chronology of Kushite Rulers xli Maps
xlv 1 What Is Art? 1 John Baines PART I Methodological Approaches 23 2
Historiography of Ancient Egyptian Art 25 Diane Bergman 3 Style 39 Melinda
K. Hartwig 4 Connoisseurship 60 Jack A. Josephson 5 Iconography and
Symbolism 78 Maya Müller 6 Semiotics and Hermeneutics 98 Valérie Angenot 7
Gender and Sexuality 120 Gay Robins 8 Reception and Perception 141
Alexandra Verbovsek 9 Representing the Other: Non-Egyptians in Pharaonic
Iconography 155 Ann Macy Roth 10 Interpreting Ancient Egyptian Material
Culture 175 Salima Ikram PART II Materials and Mediums 189 11 Sculpture 191
Melinda K. Hartwig 12 Relief 219 Alexandra Woods 13 Painting 249 Francesco
Tiradritti 14 Coffins, Cartonnage, and Sarcophagi 269 Kathlyn M. Cooney 15
Luxury Arts 293 Arielle P. Kozloff PART III Concepts in Art 307 16 Ideology
and Propaganda 309 Ronald J. Leprohon 17 Religion and Ritual 328 Emily
Teeter 18 Narrative 344 Nadja S. Braun 19 The Ordering of the Figure 360
William H. Peck 20 Portraiture 375 Betsy M. Bryan PART IV Interconnections
with the Larger World 397 21 Egyptian Connections with the Larger World:
Greece and Rome 399 Barbara Mendoza 22 Egyptian Connections with the Larger
World: Ancient Near East 423 Mehmet-Ali Ataç 23 The Art and Architecture of
Kushite Nubia 447 Peter Lacovara PART V Reception of Ancient Egyptian Art
in the Modern World 463 24 Egyptomania: Fascination for Egypt and Its
Expression in the Modern World 465 Jean-Marcel Humbert PART VI Technology
and Interpretation 483 25 Interpretation 485 Nigel Strudwick 26 Technology
504 Richard Newman 27 Conservation of Egyptian Objects: A Review of Current
Practices in the Field and in Museum Settings 522 Susanne Gänsicke Index
545