Visions of Ancient Egypt
$111.86
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2022
Summary
From antiquity, when the Great Pyramid was revered as a wonder of the ancient world, to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare’s stage, and from the medieval Arab scholars who sought hieroglyphs’ mystical wisdom, to the biblical stories still told today, Visions of Ancient Egypt explores how ongoing engagement with ancient Egypt has shaped centuries of art and design.
Accompanying a ground-breaking exhibition, it unpicks the constructed fantasies of this ancient civilisation and charts how anci…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781739720001 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1739720008 |
| Author: | Anna Ferrari, Benjamin Hinson |
| Publisher: | Sainsbury Centre |
| Imprint: | Sainsbury Centre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 952g |
| Dimensions: | 310mm x 240mm |
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About The Author
Anna Ferrari
Anna Ferrari is an independent curator and art historian specialising in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century art and design. She wrote her PhD thesis on the French modernist sculptor Henri Laurens and has previously curated exhibitions at Barbican Art Gallery, the V&A and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Dr Benjamin Hinson is an Egytpologist and the assistant curator in the Middle East Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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