A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art 1st Edition by Ann Gunter ISBN 978-1118301258 1118301250

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ISBN 10:   1118301250

ISBN 13: 978-1118301258

Author: Ann C. Gunter

Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East

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.

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.

Table of contents: 

1. The “Art” of the “Ancient Near East”
Ann C. Gunter

PART I: Approaches and Methods of Analysis and Interpretation

2. Art and Material Culture – David Wengrow

3. Meaning and Interpretation – Astrid Nunn

4. Style – Margaret Cool Root

5. Connoisseurship and Classification – Eleonora Pappalardo

6. Visual Culture – Sarah B. Graff

7. Technical Examination and Material Analysis – Deborah Schorsch

8. Gender and Sexuality – John D. M. Green

9. Semiotics, Reception Theory, and Poststructuralism – Marlies Heinz

PART II: Critical Terms and Concepts

10. Representation – Dominik Bonatz and Marlies Heinz

11. Narrative – Paul Collins

12. Ideology – Beate Pongratz‐Leisten

13. Ritual – Carolyn Nakamura

14. Agency – Sophy Downes

15. Aesthetics – Gebhard J. Selz

PART III: Materials, Media, and Artistic Environments

16. Statuary and Reliefs – Claudia E. Suter

17. Glyptic – Adelheid Otto

18. Religious Architecture – Jean M. Evans

19. Palaces and Elite Houses – Andreas Schachner

20. Rock Reliefs and Landscape Monuments – Ömür Harmansa̧h

21. Reconstructing Artistic Environments – Mehmet‐Ali Ataç

PART IV: Interactions with Neighboring Regions and Artistic Traditions

22. The Ancient Near East and Egypt – Betsy M. Bryan

23. The Ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Aegean – Marian H. Feldman

24. Near Eastern Art in the Iron Age Mediterranean – James Whitley

PART V: Intersections with Archaeology, Collecting, and Cultural Heritage

25. Archaeology and the Art of the Ancient Near East – D. T. Potts

26. Cultural Heritage across the Middle East, Ancient and Modern – Geoff Emberling and Katharyn Hanson

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