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Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East

Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East

Green, Jack
Teeter, Emily
Larson, John A.

Paperback

Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications, Book 34

ArchaeologyAncient History GeneralGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1885923899
ISBN13: 9781885923899
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Published: Dec 1 2012
Pages: 184
Weight: 1.63
Height: 0.50 Width: 9.00 Depth: 11.40
Language: English
This fully illustrated catalogue of essays, descriptions, and commentary accompanies the Oriental Institute special exhibit Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East (on exhibit February 7 through September 2, 2012). Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, models, photographs, and computer-aided reconstructions that show how the architecture, sites, and artifacts of the ancient Middle East have been documented. It also examines how the publication of those images have shaped our perception of the ancient world, and how some of the more imaginary reconstructions have obscured our real understanding of the past. The exhibit and catalog also show how features of the ancient Middle East have been presented in different ways for different audiences, in some cases transforming a highly academic image into a widely recognized icon of the past.

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