The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt
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ISBN: 978-90-8890523-0
Description: softcover, 283 pp. (26x18cm) figs.
Condition: new
Weight: 775g.
The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt, Voices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers 2000-1550 BC, Edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, Stephen Quirke, Andréas Stauder, Sidestone Press, Leiden 2018
This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research.
During the past decades, the imaginative figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from workers to artisans and, most recently, to artists. In a search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material production in past societies, and moving away from a series of modern preconceptions, this volume aims to analyse the mechanisms of material production in Egypt during the Middle Bronze Age (20001550 BC), to approach the profile of ancient Egyptian craftsmen through their own words, images and artefacts, and to trace possible modes of circulation of ideas among craftsmen in material production.
The studies in the volume address the mechanisms of ancient production in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, the circulation of ideas among craftsmen, and the profiles of the people involved, based on the material traces, including depictions and writings, the ancient craftsmen themselves left and produced.
Sculpture Workshops: who, where and for whom?
Simon Connor
The Artistic Copying Network Around the Tomb of Pahery in Elkab (EK3): a New Kingdom case study
Alisee Devillers
Antiquity Bound to Modernity. The significance of Egyptian workers in modern archaeology in Egypt
Maximilian Georg
Epistemological Things! Mystical Things! Towards an ancient Egyptian ontology
Amr El Hawary
Centralized and Local Production, Adaptation, and Imitation: Twelfth Dynasty offering tables
Alexander Ilin-Tomich
To Show and to Designate: attitudes towards representing craftsmanship and material culture in Middle Kingdom elite tombs
Claus Jurman
Precious Things? The social construction of value in Egyptian society, from production of objects to their use (mid 3rdmid 2nd millennium BC)
Christelle Maze
Faience Craftsmanship in the Middle Kingdom. A market paradox: inexpensive materials for prestige goods?
Gianluca Miniaci
Leather Processing, Castor Oil, and Desert/Nubian Trade at the Turn of the 3rd/2nd Millennium BC: some speculative thoughts on Egyptian craftsmanship
Juan Carlos Moreno García
Languages of Artists: closed and open channels
Stephen Quirke
Craft Production in the Bronze Age. A comparative view from South Asia
Shereen Ratnagar
The Egyptian Craftsman and the Modern Researcher: the benefits of archeometrical analyses
Patricia Rigault, Caroline Thomas
The Representation of Materials, an Example of Circulations of Formal Models among Workmen. An insight into the New Kingdom practices
Karine Seigneau
Staging Restricted Knowledge: the sculptor Irtysens self-presentation (ca. 2000 BCE)
Andreas Stauder
The Nubian Mudbrick Vault. A Pharaonic building technique in Nubian village dwellings of the early 20th Century
Lilli Zabrana
Description: softcover, 283 pp. (26x18cm) figs.
Condition: new
Weight: 775g.
The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt, Voices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers 2000-1550 BC, Edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, Stephen Quirke, Andréas Stauder, Sidestone Press, Leiden 2018
This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research.
During the past decades, the imaginative figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from workers to artisans and, most recently, to artists. In a search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material production in past societies, and moving away from a series of modern preconceptions, this volume aims to analyse the mechanisms of material production in Egypt during the Middle Bronze Age (20001550 BC), to approach the profile of ancient Egyptian craftsmen through their own words, images and artefacts, and to trace possible modes of circulation of ideas among craftsmen in material production.
The studies in the volume address the mechanisms of ancient production in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, the circulation of ideas among craftsmen, and the profiles of the people involved, based on the material traces, including depictions and writings, the ancient craftsmen themselves left and produced.
Sculpture Workshops: who, where and for whom?
Simon Connor
The Artistic Copying Network Around the Tomb of Pahery in Elkab (EK3): a New Kingdom case study
Alisee Devillers
Antiquity Bound to Modernity. The significance of Egyptian workers in modern archaeology in Egypt
Maximilian Georg
Epistemological Things! Mystical Things! Towards an ancient Egyptian ontology
Amr El Hawary
Centralized and Local Production, Adaptation, and Imitation: Twelfth Dynasty offering tables
Alexander Ilin-Tomich
To Show and to Designate: attitudes towards representing craftsmanship and material culture in Middle Kingdom elite tombs
Claus Jurman
Precious Things? The social construction of value in Egyptian society, from production of objects to their use (mid 3rdmid 2nd millennium BC)
Christelle Maze
Faience Craftsmanship in the Middle Kingdom. A market paradox: inexpensive materials for prestige goods?
Gianluca Miniaci
Leather Processing, Castor Oil, and Desert/Nubian Trade at the Turn of the 3rd/2nd Millennium BC: some speculative thoughts on Egyptian craftsmanship
Juan Carlos Moreno García
Languages of Artists: closed and open channels
Stephen Quirke
Craft Production in the Bronze Age. A comparative view from South Asia
Shereen Ratnagar
The Egyptian Craftsman and the Modern Researcher: the benefits of archeometrical analyses
Patricia Rigault, Caroline Thomas
The Representation of Materials, an Example of Circulations of Formal Models among Workmen. An insight into the New Kingdom practices
Karine Seigneau
Staging Restricted Knowledge: the sculptor Irtysens self-presentation (ca. 2000 BCE)
Andreas Stauder
The Nubian Mudbrick Vault. A Pharaonic building technique in Nubian village dwellings of the early 20th Century
Lilli Zabrana