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Book Title
The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria
Publication Date
2003-07-21
Pages
256
ISBN
9780812236484
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812236483
ISBN-13
9780812236484
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2483292

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Graven Image : Representation in Babylonia and Assyria
Subject
Archaeology, Ancient / General, History / Ancient & Classical, Aesthetics
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Philosophy, Social Science, History
Author
Zainab Bahrani
Series
Archaeology, Culture, and Society Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
20.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.7 in

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Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2003-047322
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Bahrani opens up the field of discourse for the study of ancient Near Eastern art and brings it into dialogue with current disciplinary trends. . . . The book will stimulate further discussion about the nature(s) of Babylonian and Assyrian representation across the disciplinary divides., "Bahrani opens up the field of discourse for the study of ancient Near Eastern art and brings it into dialogue with current disciplinary trends. . . . The book will stimulate further discussion about the nature(s) of Babylonian and Assyrian representation across the disciplinary divides."-- Journal of the American Oriental Society, "Bahrani opens up the field of discourse for the study of ancient Near Eastern art and brings it into dialogue with current disciplinary trends. . . . The book will stimulate further discussion about the nature(s) of Babylonian and Assyrian representation across the disciplinary divides."- Journal of the American Oriental Society, "Bahrani opens up the field of discourse for the study of ancient Near Eastern art and brings it into dialogue with current disciplinary trends. . . . The book will stimulate further discussion about the nature(s) of Babylonian and Assyrian representation across the disciplinary divides."--Journal of the American Oriental Society, A welcome addition to the study of the ancient Near East. It breaks away from Eurocentric approaches and tries to do justice to Mesopotamian thought, thus shedding new light on the relationship between text and representation. . . . Bahrani's book will become the center of a lively debate., "A welcome addition to the study of the ancient Near East. It breaks away from Eurocentric approaches and tries to do justice to Mesopotamian thought, thus shedding new light on the relationship between text and representation. . . . Bahrani's book will become the center of a lively debate."-- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
302.2/0935
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Introduction 1. The Aesthetic and the Epistemic: Race, Culture, and Antiquity 2. The Extraterrestrial Orient: Despotic Time and the Time of the Despots 3. Ethnography and Mimesis: Representing Aesthetic Culture 4. Being in the Word: Of Grammatology and Mantic 5. Salmu : Representation in the Real 6. Decoys and Lures: Substitution and the Uncanny Double of the King 7. Presence and Repetition: The Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta 8. Conclusion: Image, Text, and Différance , or from Difference to Différance Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation--both in writing and in visual images--was thought to participate in the world and to have an effect upon it in natural, magical, and supernatural ways. The Graven Image is the first book to explore this tradition, which developed prior to, and apart from, the Greek understanding of representation. The classical Greek system, based on the notion of mimesis, or copy, is the one with which we are most familiar today. The Assyro-Babylonian ontology presented here by Zainab Bahrani opens up fresh avenues for thinking about the concept of representation in general, and her reading of the ancient Mesopotamian textual and visual record in its own ontological context develops an entirely new approach to understanding Babylonian and Assyrian arts in particular. The Graven Image describes, for the first time, rituals and wars involving images; the relationship of divination, the organic body, and representation; and the use of images as a substitute for the human form, integrating this ancient material into contemporary debates in critical theory. Bahrani challenges current methodologies in the study of Near Eastern archaeology and art history, introducing a new way to appreciate the unique contributions of Assyrian and Babylonian culture and their complex relationships to the past and present., "A welcome addition to the study of the ancient Near East. It breaks away from Eurocentric approaches and tries to do justice to Mesopotamian thought, thus shedding new light on the relationship between text and representation. . . . Bahrani's book will become the center of a lively debate."-- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
LC Classification Number
BH102.B34 2003

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