Crafts and Images in Contact

Studies on Eastern Mediterranean Art of the First Millennium BCE

• Author(s): Claudia E. Suter,
• Publisher: Saint-Paul
• Pages: 395
• ISBN_10: 3525530048
  ISBN_13: 9783525530047
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Ancient / General , History / World , Social Science / Archaeology ,

Description:... Art objects and pictures of the first millennium BC Chr. From the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean are viewed here from a perspective that sees art as a symbolic data carrier. Art conveys culturally shaped statements and thereby allows conclusions to be drawn about the culture, world view and religion of a people. In this book, it is examined in its triple function as an artifact, visual medium and reflection of cultural ideas.