Bahrani (art history, State U. of New York-Stony Brook) provides a historical and art historical study investigating concepts of femininity that prevailed in Assyro-Babylonian society. Chapters includ
In The Infinite Image Zainab Bahrani makes a case for art and the aesthetic dimension being present in antiquity, particularly in Mesopotamia, and more generally in the ancient near Eastern and Medite
Representations of sexual difference (whether visual or textual) have become an area of much theoretical concern and investigation in recent feminist scholarship. Yet although a wide range of relevant
Mesopotamia is considered the cradle of Western civilization, and the diverse societies that flourished there, nestled around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, were as culturally rich as this attributi
This book is the first in ten years to present a comprehensive survey of art and architecture in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey), from 8000 bce to the arrival of Islam
Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, rep
Liverani (history, U. of Rome) makes use of the work of V. Gordon Childe and Marxist theory to show how Uruk in southern Mesopotamia created a revolution in the fourth millennium BCE that has served a
Our ancestors, the Mesopotamians, invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which
