Hieroglyphic Modernisms

Author : Jesse Schotter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474424791
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hieroglyphic Modernisms written by Jesse Schotter and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fall

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9781416961147
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fun with Hieroglyphs written by Metropolitan Museum of Art and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secrets of hieroglyphs, the language of the ancient Egyptians, with this innovative kit from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Learn the sounds and letters of the hieroglyphic alphabet, find out which symbols were thought to have magical powers, and read how this mysterious language was decoded after hundreds of years. Then, with the alphabet chart as your guide, use the 24 hieroglyphic stamps and ink pad to write messages, create designs, and make cards.

Author : James Franklin Bethune-Baker
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way of Modernism & Other Essays written by James Franklin Bethune-Baker and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1927 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Penelope Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191578010
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction written by Penelope Wilson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years; used as monumental art, as a means of identifying Egyptianness, and for rarefied communication with the gods. In this exciting new study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of the script with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography, the continuing decipherment into modern times, and examines the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Patricia G. Berman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Hieroglyphs written by Patricia G. Berman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilhelm Max Müller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egyptological Researches: The bilingual [hieroglyphic and demotic] decrees of Philae written by Wilhelm Max Müller and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226012537
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untwisting the Serpent written by Daniel Albright and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration.

Author : Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251571
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination written by Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity. By the late antique period, literacy in hieroglyphs had been almost entirely lost. However, the monumental temples and tombs that marked the Egyptian landscape, together with the hieroglyphic inscriptions that adorned them, still stood as inescapable reminders that Christianity was a relatively new arrival to the ancient land of the pharaohs. In Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, Jennifer Westerfeld argues that depictions of hieroglyphic inscriptions in late antique Christian texts reflect the authors' attitudes toward Egypt's pharaonic past. Whether hieroglyphs were condemned as idolatrous images or valued as a source of mystical knowledge, control over the representation and interpretation of hieroglyphic texts constituted an important source of Christian authority. Westerfeld examines the ways in which hieroglyphs are deployed in the works of Eusebius and Augustine, to debate biblical chronology; in Greek, Roman, and patristic sources, to claim that hieroglyphs encoded the mysteries of the Egyptian priesthood; and in a polemical sermon by the fifth-century monastic leader Shenoute of Atripe, to argue that hieroglyphs should be destroyed lest they promote a return to idolatry. She argues that, in the absence of any genuine understanding of hieroglyphic writing, late antique Christian authors were able to take this powerful symbol of Egyptian identity and manipulate it to serve their particular theological and ideological ends.

Author : Davis Museum and Cultural Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Hieroglyphs written by Davis Museum and Cultural Center and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Penelope Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192805029
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction written by Penelope Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years. This ancient form of expression was used as art, as a means of identifying Egyptian-ness, even for communication with the gods. In this exciting new study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of hieroglyphs with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography and the continuing deciphering of the script in modern times. She covers topics like the origins of writing in Egypt, hieroglyphic script and the Egyptian language, hieroglyphs and art, scribes and everyday writing. She also examines the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today. This book is the ideal reference for anyone with an interest in the fascinating civilization of Ancient Egypt.