Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art
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Boston Berlin
De Gruyter
2014
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz394561058inh.htm Verlag, Klappentext: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz394561058kla.htm 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Brian A. Brown and Marian H. Feldman |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction Marian H. Feldman
- I. Defining the Field: Archaeology and Politics in Iraq Lamia al-Gailani Werr
- Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures Oscar White Muscarella
- Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings Constance von Rüden
- Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean Ann C. Gunter
- II. Technologies and Practices of Artistic Production: The Historiography of the Concept of "Workshop" in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History) Silvana Di Paolo
- The Impact of the "Portable": Integrating "Minor Arts" into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon Allison Karmel Thomason
- The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the "Phoenician" Bowls Francesca Onnis
- Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period Yelena Rakic
- Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving Joanna S. Smith
- III. Text and Image: Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia Cory D. Crawford
- --Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East Karen Sonik
- Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts Jennifer C. Ross
- Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings Melissa Eppihimer
- Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs Chikako E. Watanabe
- IV. Social Identities: Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE Sarah B. Graff
- Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c.883627 BCE Amy Rebecca Gansell
- Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion Aubrey Baadsgaard
- Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper
- The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History Mark B. Garrison
- Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State Brian A. Brown
- V. Religion, Ritual and Politics: Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts Claudia E. Suter
- A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art Tallay Ornan
- When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin Anne Porter
- Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art Paul Collins
- The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture Jean M. Evans
- VI. Making and Defining Space: A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla Alice A. Petty
- The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace David Kertai
- The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual Ann Shafer
- Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun Javier Álvarez-Mon
- Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire Henry P. Colburn