Description
Book SynopsisThe only comprehensive survey in print of the art and architecture of ancient Mesopotamia.
Trade Review'Gloriously illustrated … this book will undoubtedly persuade even a sceptical reader of the artistic allure of ancient Mesopotamia' - Daily Telegraph
'Illuminates the artistic creativity of ancient Mesopotamia with new and profound conceptualizations for our generation' - Harvey Weiss, Yale University
'The book is deeply informed by up-to-date scholarship and reflects significant new directions in approaches to Mesopotamian art over the past few decades' - Ann Gunter, Northwestern University
'A must-have book' - Timeless Travels
'This beautiful and insightful book will surely become the standard resource for teachers of Mesopotamian art' - Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Becoming Art • The Search for Origins: Mesopotamia and the Cradle of Civilization • Uruk: The Arts of Civilization • Early Dynastic Sumer: Images for the People, Temples for the Gods • Early Dynastic Sumer: Art for Eternity • Art of the Akkadian Dynasty • Gudea: Royal Portraits and the Lifespan of Images • The Third Dynasty of Ur • The Age of Hammurabi • Kassite and Assyrian Art at the End of the Bronze Age • Assyrian Art: Narrative and Empire • Assyrian Art in Context • Babylonian Art • Achaemenid Persian Art • Alexander in Babylon and Hellenism in Mesopotamia: Seleucid and Parthian Art • Epilogue: The Past in the Present • Glossary * Further Reading * Sources of Quotations * Acknowledgments * Sources of Illustrations * Index
