[PDF.93sj] The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria (Archaeology, Culture, and Society)

The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria (Archaeology, Culture, and Society)

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 | #3095565 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2003-06-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.75 x5.98l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Scholarly Research, Accessible Text|By Donah Grassman|As with all of Bahrani's texts about ancient Near Eastern culture and artifacts, this book is well researched and painstakingly presented. In her careful presentation in The Graven Image, Bahrani builds the reader's understanding of the Western scholarly approach to Assyrian art history, not in protest, but as part of her ar| ||"A passionate and powerful polemic."—Antiquity

|"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 disc

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, an...

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