Название: The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria
Автор: Zainab Bahrani
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812236483
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 10,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation—both in writing and in visual images—was thought to participate in the world and to have an effect upon it in natural, magical, and supernatural ways. The Graven Image is the first book to explore this tradition, which developed prior to, and apart from, the Greek understanding of representation.