Mehmet-Ali Ataç

Gebundenes Buch

Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East

Beschreibung

Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.

Autor

Mehmet-Ali Ataç studied architecture, art history, and archaeology, earning his Ph.D. from Harvard Unviersity, Massachusetts in 2003. He was Whiting Post-doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University, New Jersey (2003-2004) and Hetty Goldman Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2010-11). From 2004 to 2015, he taught at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. A scholar of the art of the ancient Near East, he is the author of The Mythology of Kingship in Neo-Assyrian Art (Cambridge, 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9781107154957
• ISBN-10: 1107154952
• Artikelnr.: 48901329