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The Graven Image Representation In Babylonia And Assyria 1st Edition Zainab Bahrani

Name: The Graven Image Representation In Babylonia And Assyria 1st Edition Zainab Bahrani
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 10.81 MB

Pages: 256

Author: Zainab Bahrani

ISBN: 9780812236484, 0812236483

Language: English

Year: 2003

Edition: 1

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The Graven Image Representation In Babylonia And Assyria 1st Edition Zainab Bahrani by Zainab Bahrani 9780812236484, 0812236483 instant download after payment.

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.