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Object biographies: collaborative approaches to ancient mediterranean art / edited by John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Houston : The Menil Collection, 2021Description: xv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300250879
Subject(s): Summary: "This innovative presentation of ancient objects in the Menil Collection offers a new model for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Editors John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis with 11 additional authors employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and known provenance to gain insight into both the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly about archaeology, art history, and collecting practices. As they take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste, these essays bring to life works that are often consigned to either the imperial past or conceptual limbo and introduce a fresh framework through which to engage with the multilayered history that these objects represent"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: AD New acquisitions 2021
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Printed Books Accademia di Danimarca Biblioteca KU/al. Obje 01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan ACDAN21030530

"This innovative presentation of ancient objects in the Menil Collection offers a new model for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Editors John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis with 11 additional authors employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and known provenance to gain insight into both the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly about archaeology, art history, and collecting practices. As they take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste, these essays bring to life works that are often consigned to either the imperial past or conceptual limbo and introduce a fresh framework through which to engage with the multilayered history that these objects represent"-- Provided by publisher.

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