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Bilderwelten : ägyptische Bilder und ägyptologische Kunst : Vorarbeiten für eine bildwissenschaftliche Ägyptologie

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Bilderwelten : ägyptische Bilder und ägyptologische Kunst : Vorarbeiten für eine bildwissenschaftliche Ägyptologie / von Kai Widmaier.
Author
Widmaier, Kai
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description
xlii, 669 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
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.
Series Statement
Probleme der Ägyptologie, 0169-9601 ; Band 35
Uniform Title
Probleme der Ägyptologie ; 35. Bd.
Alternative Title
  • Ägyptische Bilder und ägyptologische Kunst : Vorarbeiten für eine bildwissenschaftliche Ägyptologie
  • Vorarbeiten für eine bildwissenschaftliche Ägyptologie
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-625) and indexes.
Language (note)
  • Summary also in English.
Contents
Teil I. Ägyptische Kunst? -- Teil II. Bilder -- Stile -- Kontexte -- Teil III. Von ägyptischen Bildern und ägyptologischer Kunst.
ISBN
  • 9789004347731 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004347739 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2017014464
OCLC
  • ocn983796007
  • 983796007
  • SCSB-8870461
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries