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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: (DLC) 2014015282 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Melinda K Hartwig |
ISBN: | 9781118325070 1118325079 1322436991 9781322436999 9781118325087 1118325087 |
OCLC Number: | 898060305 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xlviii, 573 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Methodological Approaches -- Materials and Mediums -- Concepts in Art -- Interconnections with the Larger World -- Reception of Ancient Egyptian Art in the Modern World -- Technology and Interpretation. |
Series Title: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world., Literature and culture. |
Other Titles: | Ancient Egyptian art |
Responsibility: | edited by Melinda K. Hartwig. |
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No other work comes close to providing such an introduction to the ideas and bibliography of Egyptian art history; many of its chapters stand alone as thought-provoking essays of particular use to students; and in documenting the state of Egyptian art history it points to several productive paths forward... A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art thus serves not only as an introduction to art-historical theory for Egyptologists but also as a call to arms for the field. We should answer. (College Art Association, October 2015) "Such a multidisciplinary approach to Egyptian art is new. These articles describe, from a number of different perspectives, how ancient Egyptian art 'worked' and will be of special interest to those who wonder why Pharaonic imagery is so distinctive." (Ancient Egypt, 1 February 2015) Read more...

