Communities of Style - Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, Collective Memory in Iron Age Levant

Examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular, this book focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and style, and their role in collective memory.

About the author

Marian H. Feldman is professor of Near Eastern studies and art history at Johns Hopkins University.

Summary

Examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular, this book focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and style, and their role in collective memory.

Product details

• Authors: Marian H. Feldman, Feldman Marian H., Marian H. Feldman
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9780226105611
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10561-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, Ancient World, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory