On Art in the Ancient Near East (2 vols)

Author:   Irene J. Winter
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   No. 34
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9789004175006


Pages:   1182
Publication Date:   27 November 2009
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Author:   Irene J. Winter
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   No. 34
Weight:   2.966kg
ISBN:  

9789004175006


ISBN 10:   9004175008
Pages:   1182
Publication Date:   27 November 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Book
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Chapter One- Royal Rhetoric and the Development of Historical Narrative in Neo-Assyrian Chapter Two- Art in Empire: The Royal Image and the Visual Dimensions of Assyrian Ideology Chapter Three- Le Palais imaginaire: Scale and Meaning in the Iconography of Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Chapter Four- Ornament and the Rhetoric of Abundance in Assyria BRONZE AND IVORY/LUXURY GOODS Chapter Five- Phoenician and North Syrian Ivory Carving in Historical Context: Questions of Style and Distribution Chapter Six Carved Ivory Furniture Panels from Nimrud: A Coherent Subgroup of the North Syrian Style Chapter Seven- Is There a South Syrian Style of Ivory Carving in the Early First Millennium b.c.? Chapter Eight- North Syria as a Bronzeworking Centre in the Early First Millennium b.c.: Luxury Commodities at Home and Abroad Chapter Nine- North Syrian Ivories and Tell Halaf Reliefs: The Impact of Luxury Goods upon Major Arts Chapter Ten- Establishing Group Boundaries: Toward Methodological Refinement in the Determination of Sets as a Prior Condition to the Analysis of Cultural Contact and/or Innovation in First Millennium b.c.e. Ivory Carving INTERACTIONS OF TIME AND SPACE Chapter Eleven- Perspective on the Local Style of Hasanlu IVB: A Study in Receptivity Chapter Twelve- On the Problems of Karatepe: The Reliefs and Their Context Chapter Thirteen- Art as Evidence for Interaction: Relations between the Assyrian Empire and North Syria Chapter Fourteen- Carchemish sa kisad puratti Chapter Fifteen- Homer's Phoenicians: History, Ethnography, or Literary Trope? [A Perspective on Early Orientalism]

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IRENE J. WINTER, Ph.D. (1973), Columbia University, New York, is William Dorr Boardman Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Her first degree was in Anthropology (Barnard College); her MA in Near Eastern Studies (University of Chicago), her PhD in Art History and Archaeology. Not surprisingly, her extensive publications have tended to be inter-disciplinary in nature.

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