MESOPOTAMIA: ANCIENT ART AND ARCHITECTURE

BAHRANI ZAINAB

ISBN 10: 050051917X / ISBN 13: 9780500519172

Published by THAMES HUDSON, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MESOPOTAMIA: ANCIENT ART AND ARCHITECTURE
• Publisher: THAMES HUDSON
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 050051917X
• ISBN 13: 9780500519172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is the first in ten years to present a comprehensive survey of art and architecture in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey), from 8000 BCE to the arrival of Islam in 636 CE. The book is richly illustrated with c. 400 full-colour photographs, and maps and time charts that guide readers through the chronology and geography of this part of the ancient Near East. The book addresses such essential art historical themes as the origins of narrative representation, the first emergence of historical public monuments and the earliest aesthetic commentaries. It explains how images and monuments were made and how they were viewed. It also traces the ancient practices of collecting and conservation and rituals of animating statues and of architectural construction. Accessible to students and non-specialists, the book expands the scope of standard surveys to cover art and architecture from the prehistoric to the Roman era, including the legendary cities of Ur, Babylon, Nineveh, Hatra and Seleucia on the Tigris.

About the Author

Zainab Bahrani is Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. She is the author of numerous books, including The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity, winner of the Lionel Trilling Prize in 2015, and Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia, winner of the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize.