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Mesopotamia: ancient art and architecture

Mesopotamia: ancient art and architecture
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ISBN 050051917X (hbk.)
9780500519172 (hbk.)
Author Bahrani, Zainab 1962-
Title Mesopotamia : ancient art and architecture / Zainab Bahrani
Publisher London : Thames & Hudson, 2017
Physical desc. 376 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, plans ; 29 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-366) and index.
Contents Introduction: becoming art -- Mesopotamia in art history Influence on artists -- Innovation and creativity in Mesopotamian art -- The approach of this book -- The search for origins: Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization -- Early interest in Mesopotamia -- Earl archaeology in Mesopotamia -- The emergence of art: prehistoric Mesopotamia -- Uruk: the arts of civilization -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Seals: the mark of identity -- Writing: the beginning of history -- Archaeology and history: the Uruk phenomenon -- Mythic history -- Early dynastic Sumer: images for the people, temples for the gods -- Sculpture: the votive image -- The portrait as text and substitute images -- Metalwork -- Architecture -- Architectural ritual -- Early dynastic Sumer: art for eternity -- The art of death: the royal cemetery of Ur -- The Mari treasure -- Inventing the public monument -- Seals and sealings -- Art of the Akkadian dynasty -- Royal monuments and sovereign power -- Portraiture and identity: the royal image -- Architecture -- Cylinder seals -- Gudea: royal portraits and the lifespan of images -- The emergence of portraiture -- Statues and the forms of representation -- Images and texts of the Lagash dynasty -- The function and lifespan of images -- The third dynasty of Ur -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Regional art -- Cylinder seals -- The age of Hammurabi -- The codex of Hammarabi -- Portrait sculpture and vital images -- The palace at Mari -- The beginnings of aesthetic discourse -- Life and clay: terra-cotta images -- Kassite and Assyrian art at the end of the Bronze Age -- Kassite art and the question of style -- Middle Assyrian art -- Image wars -- Assyrian art: narrative and empire: Nimrud -- Dur Sharrukin -- Nineveh -- Assyrian art in context -- Art in death: royal tombs of the Assyrian queens -- Ivories from the empire -- Monuments in place -- Rock reliefs: landscape as the terrain of kingship -- Cylinder seals -- Babylonian art -- Babylonian sculpture: looking to the past -- Babylon: the city as a work of art -- Calligraphic texts -- Cylinder seals -- Achaemenid Persian art -- Babylon -- Pasargadae -- Mesopotamian rock-cut tombs and reliefs -- The Bisotun relief -- Persepolis -- Naqsh-i-Rustam -- Sculpture -- Applied arts and luxury objects -- Cylinder seals -- The end of the Persian Empire -- Alexander in Babylon and Hellenism in Mesopotamia: Seleucid and Parthian art -- Hellenism in the art of Mesopotamia -- Seleucia on the Tigris -- Continuity and change -- Mesopotamian arts under the Parthian-Arsacid rule -- Hatra and the Mesopotamian legacy -- Interacting with the past -- The end
Subject Art, Sumerian
Art, Assyro-Babylonian
Art, Ancient -- Iraq
Art, Ancient -- Syria
Art, Ancient -- Turkey
Architecture, Ancient -- Iraq
Architecture, Ancient -- Syria
Architecture, Ancient -- Turkey
Iraq -- Antiquities
Syria -- Antiquities
Turkey -- Antiquities
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