Ebook: A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art
Author: Ann Clyburn Gunter
- Tags: Art Middle Eastern., Art Ancient -- Middle East., Art Ancient., Middle East., Kultur, Alter Orient
- Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
- City: Alter Orient, Middle East
- Language: English
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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 Read more...
Abstract: 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