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A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art

Buch | Softcover

2025
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-119-11209-9 (ISBN)

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Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near EastThis 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.Part One of the book considers the methodologies and approaches that the field has drawn on and refined. Part Two addresses terms and concepts critical to understanding the subjects and formal characteristics of the Near Eastern material record, including the intellectual frameworks within which monuments have been approached and interpreted. Part Three surveys the field's most distinctive and characteristic genres, with special reference to Mesopotamian art and architecture. Part Four considers involvement with artistic traditions across a broader reach, examining connections with Egypt, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean. And finally, Part Five addresses intersections with the closely allied discipline of archaeology and the institutional stewardship of cultural heritage in the modern Middle East.Told from multiple perspectives, A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art is an enlightening, must-have book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of ancient Near East art and Near East history as well as those interested in history and art history.

Ann C. Gunter, PhD, is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. She is also the former curator of ancient Near Eastern art at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, where she organized numerous exhibitions.

Notes on Contributors ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xviiAbbreviations xix1 The "Art" of the "Ancient Near East" 1Ann C. GunterPART I Approaches and Methods of Analysis and Interpretation 232 Art and Material Culture 25David Wengrow3 Meaning and Interpretation 49Astrid Nunn4 Style 75Margaret Cool Root5 Connoisseurship and Classification 103Eleonora Pappalardo6 Visual Culture 129Sarah B. Graff7 Technical Examination and Material Analysis 153Deborah Schorsch8 Gender and Sexuality 179John D. M. Green9 Semiotics, Reception Theory, and Poststructuralism 209Marlies HeinzPART II Critical Terms and Concepts 23110 Representation 233Dominik Bonatz and Marlies Heinz11 Narrative 261Paul Collins12 Ideology 283Beate Pongratz-Leisten13 Ritual 309Carolyn Nakamura14 Agency 333Sophy Downes15 Aesthetics 359Gebhard J. SelzPART III Materials, Media, and Artistic Environments 38316 Statuary and Reliefs 385Claudia E. Suter17 Glyptic 411Adelheid Otto18 Religious Architecture 433Jean M. Evans19 Palaces and Elite Houses 457Andreas Schachner20 Rock Reliefs and Landscape Monuments 483Ömür Harmansa' h21 Reconstructing Artistic Environments 507Mehmet-Ali AtaçPART IV Interactions with Neighboring Regions and Artistic Traditions 53122 The Ancient Near East and Egypt 533Betsy M. Bryan23 The Ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Aegean 565Marian H. Feldman24 Near Eastern Art in the Iron Age Mediterranean 585James WhitleyPART V Intersections with Archaeology, Collecting, and Cultural Heritage 61325 Archaeology and the Art of the Ancient Near East 615D. T. Potts26 Cultural Heritage across the Middle East, Ancient and Modern 637Geoff Emberling and Katharyn HansonIndex 661

Reihe/Serie	Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte	Ancient Culture • Antike • Classical Studies • Humanistische Studien • Klassisches Altertum • Kunst • Naher Osten • Naher Osten /Kultur, Künste
ISBN-10	1-119-11209-5 / 1119112095
ISBN-13	978-1-119-11209-9 / 9781119112099
Zustand	Neuware