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A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art

Beschreibung

A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art.

- Features contributions from top scholars in their respective fields of expertise relating to ancient Egyptian art
- Provides overviews of past and present scholarship and suggests new avenues to stimulate debate and allow for critical readings of individual art works
- Explores themes and topics such as methodological approaches, transmission of Egyptian art and its connections with other cultures, ancient reception, technology and interpretation,
- Provides a comprehensive synthesis on a discipline that has diversified to the extent that it now incorporates subjects ranging from gender theory to 'X-ray fluorescence' and 'image-based interpretations systems'

Autor

THE EDITOR Melinda K. Hartwig is a Professor of Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Georgia State University, USA. She is the author of Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Thebes, 1419-1372 BCE (2004) and the Tomb Chapel of Menna (Theban Tomb 69): The Art, Culture, and Science of Painting in an Egyptian Tomb (2013).

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 179mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1102g
• ISBN-13: 9781444333503
• ISBN-10: 144433350X
• Artikelnr.: 41521739