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The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity
Zainab Bahrani
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Description for The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity
Hardback. Asserting that art and the aesthetic dimension appeared in antiquity, The Infinite Image is a ground-breaking dissection of the established eurocentric ideas regarding art as a modern, and purely Western, aspect of culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 110, 70 in colour. BIC Classification: ACG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 200 x 256 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1054.
In The Infinite Image Zainab Bahrani maintains that concepts of art and the aesthetic already existed in antiquity, particularly in Mesopotamia, but more generally in the Near Eastern and Mediterranean world. This position is contrary to current scholarship, which has widely come to define art as a modern, and even a purely Western category. Yet in the early twentieth century, artists like Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore and intellectuals such as Georges Bataille were captivated by the Mesopotamian sculptures they encountered newly displayed in Western museums. This book dissects the accepted eurocentric definitions of art and aesthetics and argues ... Read more
In The Infinite Image Zainab Bahrani maintains that concepts of art and the aesthetic already existed in antiquity, particularly in Mesopotamia, but more generally in the Near Eastern and Mediterranean world. This position is contrary to current scholarship, which has widely come to define art as a modern, and even a purely Western category. Yet in the early twentieth century, artists like Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore and intellectuals such as Georges Bataille were captivated by the Mesopotamian sculptures they encountered newly displayed in Western museums. This book dissects the accepted eurocentric definitions of art and aesthetics and argues ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780232775
SKU
V9781780232775
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About Zainab Bahrani
Zainab Bahrani is the Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University in New York. She is the author of several books on ancient Mesopotamian art and history, most recently Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia (2008).
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