Ur: Empire, Modernity, and the Visualization of Antiquity Between the Two World Wars
| Autor: | Billie Melman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cultural Studies
Materiality (auditing) History Sociology and Political Science General Arts and Humanities Modernity media_common.quotation_subject Empire 06 humanities and the arts Ancient history 060202 literary studies Monotheism language.human_language Gender Studies 0602 languages and literature British Empire language Sumerian media_common |
| Zdroj: | Representations. 145:129-151 |
| ISSN: | 1533-855X 0734-6018 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/rep.2019.145.1.129 |
| Popis: | This article explores the multiple visual presences of antiquity in the first half of the twentieth century and connects visual histories to the history of empires. It shows how archaeology mediated between the newly discovered material civilizations of the ancient Mesopotamian empires and experiences of modernity in the British Empire, the world’s largest modern empire. The article demonstrates how the materiality of antiquity enabled its visualization in a variety of forms, from illustrations through black-and-white and color photography to aerial photography, and in three-dimensional reconstructions in museums. The article focuses on the spectacular archaeological discoveries at Ur, Tell Al-Muqayyar, in Southern Iraq, which exposed to mass audiences the unknown Sumerian culture. Ur was represented and constructed as the place of origin of monotheism, a site of a rich material culture, and, at the same time, as barbarous. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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