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Greek Art and the Orient (Hardcover)
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Greek Art and the Orient (Hardcover)
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For over a century, scholars have recognized an "orientalizing
period" in the history of early Greek art, in which Greek artisans
fashioned works of art under the stimulus of Near Eastern imports
or resident foreign artisans. Previous studies have emphasized the
role of Greek and Phoenician traders in bringing about these
contacts with the civilizations of the ancient Near East and Egypt,
debating their duration or intensity in the Greek world. In this
study, Ann Gunter interrogates the categories of "Greek" and
"Oriental" as problematic and shifts emphasis to modes of contact
and cultural transfers within a broader regional setting. Her
provocative study places Greek encounters with the Near East and
Egypt in the context of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which by the 8th
and 7th centuries BCE extended from southern Turkey to western
Iran. Using an expanded array of archaeological and textual
sources, she argues that crucial aspects of the identity and
meaning of foreign works of art were constructed through
circumstances of transfer, ownership, and display.
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