{"product_id":"critical-approaches-to-ancient-near-eastern-art-9781501513206","title":"Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCritical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art concentrates on the visual, material, and built aspects of the Ancient Near East from the fourth millennium BCE to the Hellenistic period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eEditors' Note\u003cbr\u003eMap 1. \u003cbr\u003eMap 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI. Defining the Field\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Archaeology and Politics in Iraq - Lamia al-Gailani Werr\u003cbr\u003e3. Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures - Oscar Muscarella\u003cbr\u003e4. Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings - Constance von Rüden\u003cbr\u003e5. Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean - Ann C. Gunter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII. Technologies and Practices of Artistic Production\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Historiography of the Concept of \"Workshop\" in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History) - Silvana Di Paolo\u003cbr\u003e7. The Impact of the \"Portable\": Integrating \"Minor Arts\" into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon - Allison Karmel Thomason\u003cbr\u003e8. The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the \"Phoenician\" Bowls - Francesca Onnis\u003cbr\u003e9. Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period - Yelena Rakic\u003cbr\u003e10. Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving - Joanna S. Smith\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII. Text and Image\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia - Cory D. Crawford\u003cbr\u003e12. Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East - Karen Sonik\u003cbr\u003e13. Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts - Jennifer C. Ross\u003cbr\u003e14. Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings - Melissa Eppihimer\u003cbr\u003e15. Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs - Chikako E. Watanabe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV. Social Identities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE - Sarah B. Graff\u003cbr\u003e17. Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c. 883-627 BCE - Amy Rebecca Gansell\u003cbr\u003e18. Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion - Aubrey Baadsgaard\u003cbr\u003e19. Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia - Stephanie Langin-Hooper\u003cbr\u003e20. The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History - Mark B. Garrison\u003cbr\u003e21. Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State - Brian A. Brown\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eV. Religion, Ritual and Politics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts - Claudia E. Suter\u003cbr\u003e23. A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art - Tallay Ornan\u003cbr\u003e24. When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin - Anne Porter\u003cbr\u003e25. Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art - Paul Collins\u003cbr\u003e26. The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture - Jean M. Evans\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVI. Making and Defining Space\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla - Alice A. Petty\u003cbr\u003e28. The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace - David Kertai\u003cbr\u003e29. The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual - Ann Shafer\u003cbr\u003e30. Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun - Javier Álvarez-Mon\u003cbr\u003e31. 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