Visual and written culture in ancient Egypt / John Baines.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 420 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191518393
- 0191518395
- 932.01 22
- DT61 .B315 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-405) and index.
Print version record.
PROLOGUE. Visual, written, decorum -- WRITTEN CULTURE. Literacy and ancient Egyptian society -- Four notes on literacy -- Literacy, social organization and the archaeological record: the case of early Egypt -- Writing and society in early Egypt -- Orality and literacy -- Appendix: updates to chapters. 2-5; comparative studies -- Ancient Egyptian concepts and uses of the past: third to second millennium evidence -- VISUAL CULTURE. Introductory note -- Theories and universals of representation: Heinrich Schafer and Egyptian art -- Schafer's mottoes and the understanding of representation -- Colour terminology and colour classification: ancient Egyptian colour terminology and polychromy -- Stone and other materials: usages and values -- Communication and display: the integration of early Egyptian art and writing -- On the status and purposes of ancient Egyptian art.
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