Greek Art and the Orient
- Author: Ann C. Gunter, Northwestern University, Illinois
- Date Published: July 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521182997
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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.
Read more- 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
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- 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.
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