LEADER 04456nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910820603403321 005 20240418024448.0 010 $a1-283-89782-2 010 $a0-8122-0677-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206777 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068547 035 $a(OCoLC)794702288 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642151 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000686534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11471932 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10733048 035 $a(PQKB)10297237 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17907 035 $a(DE-B1597)449300 035 $a(OCoLC)1013947902 035 $a(OCoLC)979756472 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206777 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441816 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642151 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421032 035 $a(OCoLC)932312691 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441816 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068547 100 $a20030313h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe graven image $erepresentation in Babylonia and Assyria /$fZainab Bahrani 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2003. 210 4$a©2003 215 $a1 online resource (x, 242 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aArchaeology, Culture, and Society 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-3648-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Aesthetic and the Epistemic: Race, Culture, and Antiquity --$t2. The Extraterrestrial Orient: Despotic Time and the Time of the Despots --$t3. Ethnography and Mimesis: Representing Aesthetic Culture --$t4. Being in the Word: Of Grammatology and Mantic --$t5. ?almu: Representation in the Real --$t6. Decoys and Lures: Substitution and the Uncanny Double of the King --$t7. Presence and Repetition: The Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta --$t8. Conclusion: Image, Text, and Différance, or from Difference to Différance --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aMesopotamia, 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, representation-both in writing and in visual images-was thought to participate in the world and to have an effect upon it in natural, magical, and supernatural ways. The Graven Image is the first book to explore this tradition, which developed prior to, and apart from, the Greek understanding of representation. The classical Greek system, based on the notion of mimesis, or copy, is the one with which we are most familiar today. The Assyro-Babylonian ontology presented here by Zainab Bahrani opens up fresh avenues for thinking about the concept of representation in general, and her reading of the ancient Mesopotamian textual and visual record in its own ontological context develops an entirely new approach to understanding Babylonian and Assyrian arts in particular. The Graven Image describes, for the first time, rituals and wars involving images; the relationship of divination, the organic body, and representation; and the use of images as a substitute for the human form, integrating this ancient material into contemporary debates in critical theory. Bahrani challenges current methodologies in the study of Near Eastern archaeology and art history, introducing a new way to appreciate the unique contributions of Assyrian and Babylonian culture and their complex relationships to the past and present. 606 $aAesthetics, Oriental 606 $aArt, Assyro-Babylonian 606 $aAesthetics, Oriental$xHistoriography 606 $aArt, Assyro-Babylonian$xHistoriography 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aArchaeology. 615 0$aAesthetics, Oriental. 615 0$aArt, Assyro-Babylonian. 615 0$aAesthetics, Oriental$xHistoriography. 615 0$aArt, Assyro-Babylonian$xHistoriography. 676 $a302.2/0935 700 $aBahrani$b Zainab$f1962-$0750172 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820603403321 996 $aThe graven image$93916502 997 $aUNINA