Skip to content
Register Sign in Wishlist
Look Inside Greek Art and the Orient

Greek Art and the Orient

  • Date Published: July 2012
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521182997

Paperback

Add to wishlist

Other available formats:
Hardback


Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available on inspection

Description
Product filter button
Description
Contents
Resources
Courses
About the Authors
  • For over a century, scholars have recognized an 'orientalizing period' in the history of early Greek art, in which Greek artisans fashioned works of art under the stimulus of Near Eastern imports or resident foreign artisans. Previous studies have emphasized the role of Greek and Phoenician traders in bringing about these contacts with the civilizations of the ancient Near East and Egypt, debating their duration or intensity in the Greek world. In this study, Ann Gunter interrogates the categories of 'Greek' and 'Oriental' as problematic and shifts emphasis to modes of contact and cultural transfers within a broader regional setting. Her provocative study places Greek encounters with the Near East and Egypt in the context of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which by the 8th and 7th centuries BCE extended from southern Turkey to western Iran. Using an expanded array of archaeological and textual sources, she argues that crucial aspects of the identity and meaning of foreign works of art were constructed through circumstances of transfer, ownership and display.

    • Presents a historiographic investigation of 'orientalizing' discourse
    • Provides a new intelligent perspective on Greek-Near Eastern artistic interaction
    • Uses a new geographic and historical setting for understanding Greek and Near Eastern contact and influence
    Read more

    Customer reviews

    Not yet reviewed

    Be the first to review

    Review was not posted due to profanity

    ×

    , create a review

    (If you're not , sign out)

    Please enter the right captcha value
    Please enter a star rating.
    Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

    How do you rate this item?

    ×

    Product details

    • Date Published: July 2012
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521182997
    • length: 272 pages
    • dimensions: 254 x 175 x 12 mm
    • weight: 0.58kg
    • contains: 51 b/w illus. 3 maps
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Art and 'Assyrianization' along the imperial frontiers
    2. Conceptual geographies and frameworks
    3. Defining and interpreting styles
    4. Gifts, exchange, and acquisition
    5. Imperial ideologies and modes of appropriation.

  • Author

    Ann C. Gunter, Northwestern University, Illinois
    Ann C. Gunter is currently a Professor of Art History at Northwestern University and previously served as curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. She is the author and editor of numerous books on Near Eastern art and Anatolian archaeology.

Related Books

Sorry, this resource is locked

Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org

Register Sign in
Please note that this file is password protected. You will be asked to input your password on the next screen.

» Proceed

You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.

Continue ×

Continue ×

Continue ×
warning icon

Turn stock notifications on?

You must be signed in to your Cambridge account to turn product stock notifications on or off.

Sign in Create a Cambridge account arrow icon
Ă—

Find content that relates to you

Join us online

This site uses cookies to improve your experience. Read more Close

Are you sure you want to delete your account?

This cannot be undone.

Cancel

Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.

If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.

×
Please fill in the required fields in your feedback submission.
×