Rezension von "The canonical tradition in ancient Egyptian art" [von Whitney Davis]
Author : John Baines
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : John Baines
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Whitney M. Davis
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Page : 605 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art, Ancient
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Author : Whitney M. Davis
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Art, Ancient
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Author : Whitney Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 1990-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521365901
From the beginning of Egyptian dynastic history (c. 3000 BC), Egyptian artists worked within a set of specific rules for image making. The system was established in order to depict and to justify the ambitions of the ancient Egyptian elite, and was so successful that virtually no other forms of image making survive in the archaeological record. This book describes the rules for making correct canonical images at the levels of technique and subject matter, and explores the way in which these rules were expressed and transmitted from artist to artist over 3,000 years. Although it uses up-to-date visual and archaeological data, it presumes no specific knowledge of ancient Egypt and aims to introduce the fundamentals of Egyptian art to readers with general interests in Egyptian art, history and archaeology.
Author : Whitney Davis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691245908
A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, presenting an exacting new account of the interaction that occurs when a viewer looks at a picture. Davis argues that pictoriality—the depiction intended by its maker to be seen—emerges at a particular standpoint in space and time. Reconstruction of this standpoint is the first step of the art historian’s craft. Because standpoints are inherently mutable and mobile, pictoriality constantly shifts in form and possible meaning. To capture this complexity, Davis develops new concepts of radical pictorial ambiguity, including “bivisibility” (the fact that pictures can always be seen in ways other than intended), pictorial naturalism, and the behavior of pictures under changing angles of view. He then applies these concepts to four cases—Paleolithic cave painting; ancient Egyptian tomb decoration; classical Greek architectural sculpture, with a focus on the Parthenon frieze; and Renaissance perspective as invented by Brunelleschi. A profound new theory of the work of both makers and viewers by one of the discipline’s most esteemed and engaged thinkers, Visuality and Virtuality is essential reading for art historians, architects, archaeologists, and philosophers of art and visual theory.
Author : Whitney Davis
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art, Ancient
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Page : 2132 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
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Author : John Baines
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198152507
A generously illustrated collection of John Baines's influential writings on the role of writing and the importance of visual culture in ancient Egypt. Investigation of these key topics in a comparative study of early civilizations is pursued through a number of case studies, and characterized by a radically interdisciplinary approach.
Author : Whitney Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520322614
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
Author : Todd Gillen
Publisher :
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : 9782875621269
Tradition is central to Egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises the concept by bringing together the most recent work on archaeological, art historical and philological material from the Predynastic to the Late Period. The eclectic mix of material in this volume takes us from New Kingdom artists in the Theban foothills to Old Kingdom Abusir, and from changing ideas about literary texts to the visual effects of archaising statuary. With themes of diachrony persisting at the centre, aspects of tradition are approached from a variety of perspectives: as sets of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms; as processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission; and as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact production. The volume is divided into four main sections, the first three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the contributions: text, art, and artefacts. The final section collects papers dealing with traditions which span different media.00The concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by the field of text criticism and form common reference points for describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive, and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of cultural production.