ADA COHEN is a professor of art history and the Israel Evans Professor in Oratory and Belles Lettres at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. STEVEN E. KANGAS is a senior lecturer in art history and Jewish studies at Dartmouth College.
Assyrian Reliefs is certain to find a place on the shelves of many
libraries and even personal collections. Though we cannot all have
first-hand access to Assyrian art, Assyrian Reliefs offers the next
best thing high quality images accompanied by thought-provoking
interpretations. CAA Reviews"
This volume will reward the careful reader with a lively ongoing
debate about the significance and meaning of the figures and motifs
featured in these more static Assyrian reliefs. The New England
reliefs, and the repeated sacred figures in general, have
heretofore been neglected in favor of those illustrating active
narratives such as hunts and warfare, and this volume helps to
remedy this omission. The general reader will be rewarded with an
interesting and up-to-date account of how Assyrian motifs have
figured in the visual, historical, and religious life of the United
States, from New England all the way to the Los Angeles malls.
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