Communities of Style
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A01=Marian H. Feldman
ancient
antiquities
archeologist
archeology
art history
artwork
assyria
assyrianization
Author_Marian H. Feldman
babylonia
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collective memory
community formation
connoisseurship
culture
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
historian
historical research
identity
intentionality
iron age
ivory
levant
levantine style
luxury goods
metal
middle east
mobility
near eastern studies
portable
society
southwest asia
Product details
- ISBN 9780226105611
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 19 x 26mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2014
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Communities of Style examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and style, and their role in collective memory. Marian H. Feldman brings her dual training as an art historian and an archaeologist to bear on the networks that were essential to the movement and trade of luxury goods - particularly ivories and metal works - and how they were also central to community formation. The interest in, and relationships to, these art objects, Feldman shows, led to wide-ranging interactions and transformations both within and between communities. Ultimately, she argues, the production and movement of luxury goods in the period demands a rethinking of our very geo-cultural conception of the Levant, as well as its influence beyond what have traditionally been thought of as its borders.
Marian H. Feldman is professor of Near Eastern studies and art history at Johns Hopkins University.
