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Bilderwelten : ägyptische Bilder und ägyptologische Kunst : Vorarbeiten für eine bildwissenschaftliche Ägyptologie / von Kai Widmaier.

By: Widmaier, Kai
Language: German Summary language: English Series: : 35.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©[2017]Description: xlii, 669 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004347731Other title: Ägyptische Bilder und ägyptologische Kunst : Vorarbeiten für eine bildwissenschaftliche Ägyptologie | Vorarbeiten für eine bildwissenschaftliche ÄgyptologieSubject(s): Art, Egyptian | Art, Ancient -- Egypt | Art, Egyptian -- History -- MethodologyDDC classification: 700.932 LOC classification: N5350 | .W47 2017
Contents:
Ägyptische Kunst? -- Bilder - Stile - Kontexte -- Von ägyptischen Bildern und ägyptologischer Kunst.
Summary: "Egyptologists have been debating for decades about whether or not Egyptian images classify as art. Nevertheless, the term 'art' still serves as a guiding concept for Egyptology. Kai Widmaier offers an overview of how different art-historical interpretive methods influence Egyptological research. His study demonstrates that, due to its adherence to the term art, Egyptology has considerably dissociated Egyptian images from their original contexts. Bilderwelten combines the analysis of Egyptian images from the 6th to the 18th Dynasty with methodological reflection. This leads to both a new terminology of style as well as to an alternative approach to Egyptian images. By differentiating systematically between Egyptian images and Egyptological art, this book lays the foundation for an Egyptology that follows the path of Visual Studies instead of adhering to questionable art-historical methods."--Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Egypt and Sudan Series SERIES: PÄ 35 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 54063000248156
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-625) and indexes.

Teil I. Ägyptische Kunst? -- Teil II. Bilder - Stile - Kontexte -- Teil III. Von ägyptischen Bildern und ägyptologischer Kunst.

"Egyptologists have been debating for decades about whether or not Egyptian images classify as art. Nevertheless, the term 'art' still serves as a guiding concept for Egyptology. Kai Widmaier offers an overview of how different art-historical interpretive methods influence Egyptological research. His study demonstrates that, due to its adherence to the term art, Egyptology has considerably dissociated Egyptian images from their original contexts. Bilderwelten combines the analysis of Egyptian images from the 6th to the 18th Dynasty with methodological reflection. This leads to both a new terminology of style as well as to an alternative approach to Egyptian images. By differentiating systematically between Egyptian images and Egyptological art, this book lays the foundation for an Egyptology that follows the path of Visual Studies instead of adhering to questionable art-historical methods."--Provided by publisher.

Summary also in English.

AES2017, AESND17