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Visions of Ancient Egypt
Visions of Ancient Egypt
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Visions of Ancient Egypt explores how centuries of art and design have been shaped by engagement with ancient Egypt, revealing an enduring artistic fascination with the country and its heritage. It unpicks constructed fantasies and charts how iconic motifs and visual style have been re-imagined, revealing a history closely entwined with imperial conquest and colonial politics.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 03 September 2022
Publisher: Sainsbury Centre
From antiquity, when the Great Pyramid was revered as a wonder of the ancient world, to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare's stage, and from the medieval Arab scholars who sought hieroglyphs' mystical wisdom, to the biblical stories still told today, Visions of Ancient Egypt explores how ongoing engagement with ancient Egypt has shaped centuries of art and design. Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition, it unpicks the constructed fantasies of this ancient civilization and charts how ancient Egypt's iconic motifs and visual style have been re-imagined over time—revealing not just an enduring artistic fascination with Egypt but a story of how Egypt's own heritage has been reinvented and appropriated by different cultures over time, and a history closely entwined with imperial conquest and colonial politics.
Beautifully illustrated throughout and with contributions by leading scholars, this book explores the imagined construction of ancient Egypt promoted through painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and film, as well as design, fashion, and jewelry. It traces the journey across time, beginning with the ancient Romans who looted Egyptian monuments and adopted Egyptian gods into their Pantheon; to Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt, and the elite taste for all things Egyptian it prompted; as well as the Victorian creation of an Orientalist fantasy popularized at World Fairs. Presented in a nuanced way, the story is not Eurocentric. For the first time, it also places Egypt's own story firmly into the narrative, exploring, for example, Egyptian artists' responses to nationalist calls for independence spurred by the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, while also addressing the popular impact of the 'Tutmania craze in the West and its influence on Art Deco.
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Weight: 952g
Dimension: 278 x 224 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781739720001
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