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In the Light of Amarna : 100 Years of the Nefertiti discovery / for the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Staatliche Museen zu Berlin edited by Friederike Seyfried.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin : Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2012Description: 495 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783865688484
  • 3865688489
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Essays -- I. Introduction -- "In the Light of Amarna -- 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery" -- An Introduction to the Exhibition / Friederike Seyfried -- Before and After Amarna -- the Beginnings and Consequences of the Cult of the Aten / Christina Hanus -- II. History And Archaeology Of A City -- An Outline of the Research and Excavation History of Tell el-Amarna before 1914 / Friederike Seyfried -- Tell el-Amarna from 1914 to Today / Barry Kemp -- III. Living In Amarna -- Amarna -- the City and Surrounding Area / Christian Tietze -- Amarna: Palaces, Houses and Outlying Settlements / Kate Spence -- IV. Religion In Amarna -- A New State Theology -- The Religion of Light / Jan Assmann -- Akhet-Aten or the Horizon of the Aten: an Innovation in Sacred Architecture / Robert Vergnieux -- Private Religion in the Amarna Suburbs / Anna Stevens -- V. Craftsmanship In Amarna -- Egyptian Faience / Quartz Ceramics.
Manufacture and Use up until the end of Amarna / Bircit Schlick-Note -- Class -- From the Beginning to the end of the Amarna Period / Bircit Schlick-Nolte -- Metal objects in the Berlin Amarna Collection / Iris Hertel -- Craftsmanship at Amarna: Production, Repertoire and Distribution / Pamela Rose -- Cobalt Blue Pottery Painting of the Amarna Period / Nina Loschwitz -- Leatherwork at Amarna / Salima Ikram -- VI. Masterpieces From Amarna -- The Sculpture -- From Karnak to Amarna: An Artistic Breakthrough and its Consequences / Dorothea Arnold -- Statues: Repertoire and Purpose / Marsha Hill -- New Forms of Composition -- Composite Statues / Kristin Thompson -- The Workshop Complex of Thutmosis / Friederike Seyfried -- VII. Nefertiti -- Nefertiti: What remains but beauty? / Friederike Seyfried -- Nefertiti's last documented reference [for now] / Athena Van Der Perre -- Catalogue -- VIII Nefertiti In The 20Th Century -- 100 Years of the Discovery of Nefertiti / Mariana Jung.
Ludwig Borchardt, James Simon and Dealings with the Colourful Nefertiti Bust in the First Year after her Discovery / Olaf Matthes -- The Excavation Campaigns in Tell el-Amarna / Klaus Finneiser -- Nefertiti in Focus. The first Photographs of the Nefertiti Bust / Lars Petersen -- Futurists, Bow your Heads!:Amarna fever in Berlin, 1913/14 / Benedicte Savoy -- The 1925 Demand of the Return of the Nefertiti Bust, a German Perspective / Susanne Voss -- Amarna in Literature / Sylvia Peuckert -- The Thirties -- Trouble with Nefertiti / Hannelore Kischkewitz.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 709.323 I35 Available 33111009427879
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 709.323 I35 Available 33111008995538
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An accompaniment to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin's special exhibition celebrating the discovery of the Nefertiti bust in 1912, this catalog presents never-before-seen artifacts and objects from the Amarna period of Egyptian history. The book also explores religion, craftsmanship, daily life, and sculpture in Amarna and the world famous Nefertiti bust.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, December 7, 2012 - April 13, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: Essays -- I. Introduction -- "In the Light of Amarna -- 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery" -- An Introduction to the Exhibition / Friederike Seyfried -- Before and After Amarna -- the Beginnings and Consequences of the Cult of the Aten / Christina Hanus -- II. History And Archaeology Of A City -- An Outline of the Research and Excavation History of Tell el-Amarna before 1914 / Friederike Seyfried -- Tell el-Amarna from 1914 to Today / Barry Kemp -- III. Living In Amarna -- Amarna -- the City and Surrounding Area / Christian Tietze -- Amarna: Palaces, Houses and Outlying Settlements / Kate Spence -- IV. Religion In Amarna -- A New State Theology -- The Religion of Light / Jan Assmann -- Akhet-Aten or the Horizon of the Aten: an Innovation in Sacred Architecture / Robert Vergnieux -- Private Religion in the Amarna Suburbs / Anna Stevens -- V. Craftsmanship In Amarna -- Egyptian Faience / Quartz Ceramics.

Manufacture and Use up until the end of Amarna / Bircit Schlick-Note -- Class -- From the Beginning to the end of the Amarna Period / Bircit Schlick-Nolte -- Metal objects in the Berlin Amarna Collection / Iris Hertel -- Craftsmanship at Amarna: Production, Repertoire and Distribution / Pamela Rose -- Cobalt Blue Pottery Painting of the Amarna Period / Nina Loschwitz -- Leatherwork at Amarna / Salima Ikram -- VI. Masterpieces From Amarna -- The Sculpture -- From Karnak to Amarna: An Artistic Breakthrough and its Consequences / Dorothea Arnold -- Statues: Repertoire and Purpose / Marsha Hill -- New Forms of Composition -- Composite Statues / Kristin Thompson -- The Workshop Complex of Thutmosis / Friederike Seyfried -- VII. Nefertiti -- Nefertiti: What remains but beauty? / Friederike Seyfried -- Nefertiti's last documented reference [for now] / Athena Van Der Perre -- Catalogue -- VIII Nefertiti In The 20Th Century -- 100 Years of the Discovery of Nefertiti / Mariana Jung.

Ludwig Borchardt, James Simon and Dealings with the Colourful Nefertiti Bust in the First Year after her Discovery / Olaf Matthes -- The Excavation Campaigns in Tell el-Amarna / Klaus Finneiser -- Nefertiti in Focus. The first Photographs of the Nefertiti Bust / Lars Petersen -- Futurists, Bow your Heads!:Amarna fever in Berlin, 1913/14 / Benedicte Savoy -- The 1925 Demand of the Return of the Nefertiti Bust, a German Perspective / Susanne Voss -- Amarna in Literature / Sylvia Peuckert -- The Thirties -- Trouble with Nefertiti / Hannelore Kischkewitz.

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