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Tracing technoscapes : the production of Bronze Age wall paintings in the Eastern Mediterranean

Title

Tracing technoscapes : the production of Bronze Age wall paintings in the Eastern Mediterranean / edited by Johannes Becker, Johannes Jungfleisch, and Constance von Rüden.

Publication

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2018]
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Description

297 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, plans; 27 cm

Summary

Colourful surface treatments form an integral element of vernacular and élite architecture of ancient societies. This is also true for the various regions of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., where elaborate wall paintings furnished temples, tombs, palatial buildings, and in general more elaborate houses. From a present-day perspective, these rich images provide invaluable insights into past realities as well as interconnections between different visual systems. However, beyond stunning images, the materiality of wall paintings implicates a whole range of specific technical choices and gestures executed during the artistic process. The bodies of knowledge immanent in the practice of plaster and pigment preparation, in the application of paint and in the conception and execution of compositions allow us to compare the wall painting corpora of the Eastern Mediterranean on a technical level and to trace differences and similarities in a cross-cultural perspective.

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Note

"Evolved from an interdisciplinary workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna"--Back cover.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

In English; one chapter in French.

Contents

Tracing Technoscapes in the Production of Eastern Mediterranean Wall Paintings, An Introduction p. 7 / Constance von Rüden and Johannes Jungfleisch and Johannes Becker -- Western Asia p. 27 -- Wall Painting Techniques in Early Bronze Syria. Clues of Parallelism with the Traditions of the Mediterranean and Mesopotamian Regions p. 29 / Alessandro Di Ludovico and Marco Ramazzotti -- Contextes techniques et historiques des peintures murales du Grand Patais Royal de Mari. Une mise au point p. 41 / Béatrice Muller -- Preliminary Remarks on the Technical and Iconographical Aspects of the Middle Bronze Age Wall Paintings from Tell el-Burak (Lebanon) in Relation to the Aegean and Egypt p. 85 / Julia Bertsch -- The Advantages of Visible Induced Luminescence Technique for the investigation of Aegean-style Wall Painting. A Case Study from Tel Kabri, Israel p. 101 / Ravit Linn and Eric H. Cline and Assaf Yasur-Landau -- Egypt -- Original Painting Techniques. Methods and Materials in 18th Dynasty Tombs, in the Valley of the Nobles, Egypt p. 119 / Bianca Madden and Hugues Tavier -- Malqata -- The Painted Palace p. 149 / Peter Lacovara and Alexandra Winkels -- How to Paint a Landscape. Technical Perspectives on the 'Aegean'-style Landscape Paintings from Tell el-Dab'a p. 173 / Johannes Becker -- For Further Information Please See the Back of the Plaster. Architectural Impressions in the 'Aegean'-style Wall Paintings from Tell el-Dab'a p. 191 / Johannes Jungfleisch -- Between Common Craft Tradition and Deviation. The Making of Stucco Reliefs in the Eastern Mediterranean p. 213 / Constance von Rüden and Tobias Skowronek -- The Aegean p. 233 -- Forming the Image. Approaches to Painting at Ayia Irini, Kea and Tell el-Dab'a p. 235 / Lyvia Morgan -- The Find Contexts of Knossian Relief Wall Paintings, Some Ramifications p. 253 / Matthew Haysom -- Bronze Age Wall Paintings from Thebes. Technical Aspects and State of Conservation p. 279 / Sofia Michailoglou and Maria Karoglou and Asterios Bakolas.

ISBN

9789088906886
9088906882
9789088906879
9088906874

LCCN

2018419823

OCLC

on1048332557
1048332557
SCSB-9310077

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library