EGYPTIAN ART: PRINCIPLES AND THEMES IN WALL SCENES

Edited by Leonie Donovan and Kim McCorquodale

Macquarie University, Australia

 

Prism Archaeological Series 6, 2000

276 pp, 258 b&w fig., 107 col. pl.

Published by the Department of Foreign Cultural Information

Prism Publications, Guizeh, Egypt

ISBN: 977-305-232-X

 

CONTENTS

Part One: Principles of Egyptian art

1. Characteristics and style of Egyptian art from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom. Kim McCoorquodale
2. Characteristics and style of Egyptian art in the New Kingdom. Juliette Bentley
3. Materials and techniques. David Bussman
4. Representing the physical world. Susanne Binder
5. Spatial distribution. June B. Anderson
6. Guidelines, the grid system and the canon of proportions. Leonie Donovan

Part Two: Themes in private tombs

7. Agricultural scenes. Rodna Siebels
8. Animals in the domestic environment. Linda Evans
9. Animals: The hunted and the domesticated. Barbara Scanlon
10. Sacrificial slaughter. David Bussman
11. The tomb owner fishing and fowling. Susanne Binder
12. The tomb owner at the offering table. June B. Anderson
13. The staples of life: Bread and beer. Akkadia Ford
14. The funerary procession. Lesley Kinney
15. Fashion and clothing. Anna Cordin
16. Hairstyles and hair ornaments. Sheila Brown
17. Dance and related movements. Lesley Kinney
18. Crime and punishment. Julie Ivery
19. Water transport. Geoff McKergow

Part Three: The royal hereafter

20. The hereafter: Ancient Egyptian beliefs with special reference to the Amduat. Susanne Binder

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