LEADER 04037nam 22006254a 450 001 9910777769503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-77487-7 010 $a0-292-79549-1 024 7 $a10.7560/713345 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472962 035 $a(OCoLC)646760692 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245719 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271135 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206378 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271135 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10293382 035 $a(PQKB)11356322 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443242 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245719 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7171715 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443242 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7171715 035 $a(DE-B1597)587233 035 $a(OCoLC)1286808789 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795495 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472962 100 $a20060322d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhen writing met art$b[electronic resource] $efrom symbol to story /$fDenise Schmandt-Besserat 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (145 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71334-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [117]-127) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : Writing and art -- How writing shaped art. -- Pottery painting -- Glyptic --The Uruk vase : sequential narrative -- Wall and floor painting -- How art shaped writing -- Funerary inscriptions -- Votive and dedicatory inscriptions -- The stele of Hammurabi -- Conclusion : the interface between writing and art. 330 $aDenise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC?the world's oldest known system of writing?derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which she published in Before Writing: From Counting to Cuneiform and How Writing Came About, was widely reported in professional journals and the popular press. In 1999, American Scientist chose How Writing Came About as one of the "100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science." In When Writing Met Art, Schmandt-Besserat expands her history of writing into the visual realm of communication. Using examples of ancient Near Eastern writing and masterpieces of art, she shows that between 3500 and 3000 BC the conventions of writing?everything from its linear organization to its semantic use of the form, size, order, and placement of signs?spread to the making of art, resulting in artworks that presented complex visual narratives in place of the repetitive motifs found on preliterate art objects. Schmandt-Besserat then demonstrates art's reciprocal impact on the development of writing. She shows how, beginning in 2700-2600 BC, the inclusion of inscriptions on funerary and votive art objects emancipated writing from its original accounting function. To fulfill its new role, writing evolved to replicate speech; this in turn made it possible to compile, organize, and synthesize unlimited amounts of information; and to preserve and disseminate information across time and space. Schmandt-Besserat's pioneering investigation of the interface between writing and art documents a key turning point in human history, when two of our most fundamental information media reciprocally multiplied their capacities to communicate. When writing met art, literate civilization was born. 606 $aWriting and art$zMiddle East 606 $aArt, Ancient$zMiddle East 615 0$aWriting and art 615 0$aArt, Ancient 676 $a701/.08 700 $aSchmandt-Besserat$b Denise$0328737 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777769503321 996 $aWhen writing met art$9834368 997 $aUNINA