Ancient Egyptian Portraiture

History of an Idea

Alessio Delli Castelli (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

855 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71467-0 (ISBN)

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The ontology and quality of Egyptian Portraiture is systematised and analysed from the perspective of contemporary art history, offering a solution to the impasse that their discussion has generated in the field of Egyptology.

Ancient Egyptian Portraiture: History of an Idea concerns the origin, nature, and removal, the unravelling and explanation of the impasse pertaining to the definition, assessment, and judgement of Ancient Egyptian portraiture. Condensed in the syntagm different from ours, this impasse arises from the polarisation and dichotomy of idealism and realism which characterise the three main Egyptological definitions of portraiture. In offering a transcendental definition of art and portraiture that is anthropologically valid, the overarching aim of this book is to challenge assessments of Egyptian art and portraiture based on historically particularistic concepts that are foreign to its cultural premises and development.

Alessio Delli Castelli, Ph.D. Candidate, Liège University, is a researcher in Ancient Egyptian Art History, with a focus on Old Kingdom royal portraiture. He has published articles on art, including a theoretical discussion on the anthropological/transcendental nature of art and sculpture, The Definition of Art and Sculpture (SAK 52, 2023).

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Plates

Abbreviations

Part1 The Contribution of Ancient Egyptian Portraiture to Egyptology and History of Art

1 Definition and Phenomenology of Ancient Egyptian Portraiture

1 The Insoluble Dichotomy of Portraiture

2 The Transcendental Definition of Portraiture

3 Phenomenology of Ancient Egyptian Portraiture

2 Critique of the Egyptological Literature

1 Paradigms

2 The Seven Paradoxes of the Egyptological Terminology of Portraiture

3 Projections

4 Art, Portraiture, and Language: Conceptualism and Realism

5 Causes

6 Analysis, Style and History

7 Conclusion

Part2 History of the Notion of Portraiture in Egyptological Studies

3 Egyptian Portraiture in General Studies

1 The Egyptological Terminology of Portraiture

2 Realistic and Idealistic Portraiture: Art Historical Implications (1824–1960s)

3 Realistic and Idealistic Portraiture: Methods of Assessment

4 Realistic and Idealistic Portraiture: Causes

5 Stylistic and Iconographic Analysis (1950–2020)

6 Sociological and Anthropological Analysis

4 Excursus: The Definition of Portraiture in the Context of Specialist Studies

1 Heinrich Schäfer (1868–1957): Das Staunen über die Erfahrung Personen zu erinnern

2 Georg Steindorff (1861–1951): Nichts weiter als die steinernen Abbilder der betreffenden Personen

3 Günther Roeder (1881–1966): Ein ganz bestimmter Mensch und anderer als er

4 Alexander Scharff (1892–1950): Bursting the Fetters of its own Laws

5 Hermann Junker (1877–1962): Die geistige Persönlichkeit, die hinter der äußeren Erscheinung steht

6 Walther Wolf (1900–1973): Wechsel vom Denken zur Anschauung, vom Glauben zum Unglauben, von abstraktem zu konkretem Empfinden, von Idealismus zu Realismus!

7 Sergio Donadoni (1914–2015): ll valore essenziale della sensibilità luministica

8 Dows Dunham (1890–1984): To carry conviction as a true portrait in the modern sense

9 Claude Vandersleyen (1927–2021): La double volonté de caractériser l’individu par le nom et les traits, a figure is more reliable than an inscription

10 Andrey O.Bolshakov (1958: Purpose versus quality

11 Donald Spanel (1952: The coexistence of the natural and the ideal

12 Roland Tefnin (1946–2006): Portrait et individualisation, la gamme infinie des réalités possibles et le fosse séparant la typologie de la réalité historique

13 Jan Assmann (1938–2024): Selbstthematisierung; visualisierte Erinnerung; nicht der Verschönerung, sondern der Verewigung des Daseins

14 Dimitri Laboury (1969: Image incontourable, combinaison vectorielle, perméabilité, effet de réel et l’hypothèse d’une explication politique

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Erscheinungsdatum	11.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Harvard Egyptological Studies ; 25
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1543 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-71467-7 / 9004714677
ISBN-13	978-90-04-71467-0 / 9789004714670
Zustand	Neuware