Verlag: Burndy Library, Cambridge, MA, 2009
Anbieter: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Kanada
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 383 pp. Fine. Nearly every empire worthy of the name - from ancient Rome to the United States - has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks - giant standing stones, invented in ancient Egypt as sacred objects - serve no practical purpose. For most of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople, and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York. New obelisks and even obelisk-shaped buildings rose as well - the Washington Monument being a notable example. Obelisks, everyone seems to sense, connote some very special sort of power. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries - what they meant to Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years.
Verlag: MIT Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 026251270X ISBN 13: 9780262512701
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Brian A. Curran is Associate Professor of Art History at the Pennsylvania State University.Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.Pamela O. Long is an independent historian who has published w.