Название: Egyptian Drawings
Автор: William H. Peck
Издательство: E.P. Dutton
ISBN: 0525096914
Год: 1978
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 218
Размер: 44,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
This ?rst full-scale study of ancient Egyptian drawings reveals the signi?cant and varied contributions that drawing made to the world of Egyptian art. Because the Egyptian artist's ideal was the achievement of a timeless reality, not individual artistic expression, preliminary drawings, by their very nature individual and spontaneous, assume a special significance in Egyptian art. Drawing formed the basis upon which the arts of wall painting, temple relief sculpture, and architecture were formed. Often preserved merely by chance on papyrus or wooden boards, tomb walls, or stone or pottery fragments, Egyptian drawings make it possible for us to penetrate beyond the formal aspects of Egyptian art to a more intimate and direct contact with the ancient Egyptian mind.