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Egyptian Art (Paperback)
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Egyptian Art (Paperback)
Series: World of Art
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List price R433
Loot Price R348
Discovery Miles 3 480
You Save R85 (20%)
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The art and architecture of Egypt during the age of the pharaohs
continue to capture the imagination of the modern world. Vivid,
graceful forms decorating monuments that emanated ambition and
authority spark our wonder about this distant culture. Ever
youthful and elegant men and women encounter odd, animal-headed
gods and monsters amid scenes of work and leisure, in a paradise of
plain, bright colours, where hieroglyphic texts hint at grand
ideas. The tombs and temples of ancient Egypt seem to reveal how
art and monumental building first flowered at the heart of
civilization, and the many ways in which they may adorn and
articulate the human condition, and our relationships with the
eternal and our time on earth. Among the great creative
achievements of ancient Egypt we discover a set of constant forms:
archetypes in art and architecture, which state clearly and
concisely the contemporary view of authority, divinity, beauty and
meaning. Whether adapted to fine, delicate jewellery or colossal
statues, these forms maintain a human face - with human ideas and
emotions as their explicit inspiration. These artistic templates,
and the ideas they articulated, were refined and reinvented through
dozens of centuries, until scenes first created for the earliest
kings, around 3000 BC, were eventually used to represent Roman
emperors and the last officials of pre-Christian Egypt. Bill
Manley's account of the art of ancient Egypt draws on the finest
works of a uniquely successful and enduringly compelling
civilization through more than 3,000 years, including celebrated
masterpieces, from the Narmer palette to Tutankhamun's gold mask,
as well as their contexts of origin in the tombs, temples and
palaces of the pharaohs and their citizens.
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