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Principles of Egyptian Art (Paperback)

by Heinrich Schafer (Author), Emma Brunner-Traut (Editor), John Baines (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 498 pages
  • Publisher: Griffith Institute; 4th Revised edition edition (1 Jan 1986)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0900416513
  • ISBN-13: 978-0900416514
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This classic work discusses represenations in Egyptian painting, sculpture and reliefs, assessing how objects and figures are represented in two dimensions, introducing the ideas of 'perceptual' and 'conceptual' art. Translated from the German by John Baines who has revised the text and illustrations to take account of recent research.


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John Baines is Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford. His other work is Fecundity Figures.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A grammar of Egyptian art!, 28 Oct 2009
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Every scientist who read and analyzed the book of H. Schäfer don't forget to mention that "...is more than a classic of Egyptology". Schafer learned us the way we must understand and interpret an Egyptian object, considered to be an artistic creation. Today there are only some leading authorities in the study of the Ancient Egyptian art. One of them is Prof. J. Baines, who translated and edited Schäfer's masterpiece. He was the scientist who made more understandable the content of the volume, making some small, but absolutely necessary changes in the original manuscript (giving to up today level the transliteration of the names, the chronology, explaining some German parallelism quoted by Schäfer etc.). The late Prof. Emma Brunner-Traut, in her "Epilogue" wrote to this book, emphasized: "...what he (i.e. H. Schäfer)wrote could be described as a grammar of Egyptian art". The reader will find out information about the universe of Egyptian art, about the basic principles of the rendering of nature in two dimensions, about perspective, the rendering of the human bodies, the nature rendered in three dimensions, and many other problems connecting art, philosophy, language, or- what we can title in case of the ancient Egyptians-mentality. It is not at all an easy lecture, but we can learn many interesting things about the discussed subjects, above all that the ancient Egyptians rendered an object "...as it really is, rather than as it appears to be".
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