Greek Art and the Orient

Ann C. Gunter (Northwestern University, Illinois)

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Cambridge University Press
16 February 2009

History of art: ancient & classical art; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE

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.

By: Ann C. Gunter (Northwestern University Illinois)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 261mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 840g
ISBN: 9780521832571
ISBN 10: 0521832578
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 16 February 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ann C. Gunter is head of scholarly publications and programs and former curator of ancient Near Eastern art at the Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. She is the editor of Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East and co-editor, with Stefan R. Hauser, of Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies 1900-1950.