Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East - Mehmet-Ali Ataç

Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East

Buch | Hardcover
298 Seiten
2018
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-15495-7 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
There has been a renewed scholarly interest in apocalyptic thought in the ancient Near East. This book probes the visual dimensions and implications of this inquiry, which are otherwise missing in the fields of art history and ancient Near Eastern studies.
Discussions of apocalyptic thought and its sources in the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, have a long scholarly history, with a renewed interest and focus in the recent decades. Outside Assyriological scholarship as well, studies of the apocalyptic give significant credit to the ancient Near East, especially Babylonia and Iran, as potential sources for the manifestations of this phenomenon in the Hellenistic period. The emphasis on kingship and empire in apocalyptic modes of thinking warrants special attention paid to the regal art of ancient Mesopotamia and adjacent areas in its potential to express the relevant notions. In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç demonstrates the importance of visual evidence as a source for apocalyptic thought. Focusing on the so-called investiture painting from Mari, he relates it to parallel evidence from the visual traditions of the Assyrian Empire, ancient Egypt, and Hittite Anatolia.

Mehmet-Ali Ataç studied architecture, art history, and archaeology, earning his Ph.D. from Harvard Unviersity, Massachusetts in 2003. He was Whiting Post-doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University, New Jersey (2003–2004) and Hetty Goldman Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2010–11). From 2004 to 2015, he taught at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. A scholar of the art of the ancient Near East, he is the author of The Mythology of Kingship in Neo-Assyrian Art (Cambridge, 2010).

Introduction; 1. The 'investiture' painting from Mari; 2. The iconographic analysis of the Mari painting; 3. The flood myth as paradigm; 4. The semantics of the frame of running spirals; 5. Implications of sacral time and eschatology; 6. The royal destiny: the 'garden scene' of Ashurbanipal revisited.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Maps; 45 Halftones, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 185 x 260 mm
Gewicht 810 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 1-107-15495-2 / 1107154952
ISBN-13 978-1-107-15495-7 / 9781107154957
Zustand Neuware
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