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Author:

Feldman, Marian H.

Title:

Diplomacy by design : luxury arts and an "international style" in the ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE / Marian H. Feldman.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xvi, 278 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Art, Ancient
Art--Expertising
Bronze age--Middle East.
Commerce, Prehistoric--Middle East.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-258) and index.

Contents:

Images -- Redefining the "international style" -- The role of visual hybridity -- Iconography and meaning -- Questions of style and production -- Objects -- Materiality, luxury goods, and diplomatic gifts -- Objects and crafting -- International luxury goods in space and time -- The materiality of greeting letters -- Contexts -- Contextualizing the international koin©♭ -- Representation and negotiation in between: Ugarit and the northern levant.

ISBN:

9780226240442
0226240444 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57613651

LCCN:

2005003468

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)