Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art Regular Merchandise and early commercial work

and early commercial work

This book brings together ancient works from all over the Arctic region

Self-taught American artist William Nelson Copley (1919–1996) pushed the limits of art-world decorum throughout his career

and modern provenance research to gain insight into the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly about archaeology

Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art Regular Merchandise and early commercial workThis innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objectsa Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among themin the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Essays by 13 authors written with the layperson in mind employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and