Greek Art and the Orient

By: Ann C. Gunter

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Hardcover | 16 February 2009

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For over a century, scholars have recognized an "orientalizing period" in the history of early Greek art, in which Greek artisans fashioned works of art under the stimulus of Near Eastern imports or resident foreign artisans. Previous studies have emphasized the role of Greek and Phoenician traders in bringing about these contacts with the civilizations of the ancient Near East and Egypt, debating their duration or intensity in the Greek world. In this study, Ann Gunter interrogates the categories of "Greek" and "Oriental" as problematic and shifts emphasis to modes of contact and cultural transfers within a broader regional setting. Her provocative study places Greek encounters with the Near East and Egypt in the context of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which by the 8th and 7th centuries BCE extended from southern Turkey to western Iran. Using an expanded array of archaeological and textual sources, she argues that crucial aspects of the identity and meaning of foreign works of art were constructed through circumstances of transfer, ownership, and display.

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Art and "Assyrianization" Along the Imperial Frontiers	p. 17
Cyprus and the Neo-Assyrian Empire	p. 20
Assyrian and Non-Assyrian	p. 28
"Assyrianization" and Its Visual Culture in the Empire's Western Regions	p. 34
"Assyrianizing" and "Local Style" at Hasanlu, Western Iran	p. 40
Conceptual Geographies and Frameworks	p. 50
"Greece" versus "the Orient"	p. 51
A Mediterranean Culture?	p. 58
Ancient Frameworks: Homer, Phoenicians, and the Concept of an "Orientalizing" Phase	p. 61
Modern Frameworks: Chinoiserie and Japonisme	p. 70
Defining and Interpreting Styles	p. 80
Toward a Definition of "Orientalizing"	p. 84
Ethnicity, Material Culture, and Style	p. 91
Carved Ivories: Styles, Traditions, and Technological Style	p. 95
Neo-Assyrian Sources on Regional Production	p. 106
The "Availability" of Near Eastern Styles	p. 117
Gifts, Exchange, and Acquisition	p. 124
Rethinking Exchange	p. 128
Acquisition and "Distance Made Tangible"	p. 137
The Heraion at Samos and Investment in Greek Sanctuaries	p. 142
Sanctuary Networks?	p. 152
Imperial Ideologies and Modes of Appropriation	p. 155
Negotiating Distance	p. 156
Artisans and Mobility	p. 160
Tribute, Booty, and Gifts	p. 164
Conclusions	p. 178
Notes	p. 185
Selected Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 253
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