Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World

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Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World is written by Karen Sonik and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1949057119 (ISBN 10) and 9781949057119 (ISBN 13).

Art/ifacts and ArtWorks : De-Colonizing the Study and Museum Display of Ancient and Non-Western Things / Karen Sonik -- Beyond Representation : The Role of Affect in Sumerian Lamenting / Paul Delnero -- Seeing and Knowing: Cultural Concepts and the Deictic Power of the Image in Mesopotamia / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- The Context(ualization) of Art in Non-Literate Societies : Images and Animal Bronzes in the Armenian Middle Bronze Age / Karen S. Rubinson -- To Be or Not to Be (Divine) : The Achaemenid King and Essential Ambiguity in Image, Text, and Historical Context / Matthew W. Waters -- Glyptic Images as Reflecting Social Order : Changes in Seal Iconographies from Egalitarian to Early Centralized Societies in Greater Mesopotamia / Marcella Frangipane -- Sealing Practices at Tal-e Bakun A : Revisiting Concepts of Social Organization and Economic Control / Barbara Helwing -- Ephemeral Artifacts : Warlock and Witch Figurines in Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals / Greta Van Buylaere -- What Lay Beneath : Queen Puabi's Garments and Her Passage to the Underworld / Rita Wright -- Assyrian Spaces : Surface and Wall as Constitutive Features in Neo-Assyrian Narrative Reliefs / Marian H. Feldman -- The Assyrian Propaganda Machine in Text and Image : The Case of Sennacherib at Tyre in 701 BCE / Joshua Jeffers -- The News from the East : Assyrian Archaeology, International Politics, and the British Press in the Victorian Age / David Kertai -- Assyrian Style and Victorian Materiality : Mesopotamia in British Souvenirs, Political Caricatures, Theatrical Productions, and the Sydenham Crystal Palace / Kevin M. McGeough.