An examination of the myriad lifetimes lived by ancient Egyptian artifacts
Egypt has a particular longue dur e, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new deities or turned into houses and tombs. Tombs, in turn, have been adapted to function as human dwellings already in the Late Antique Period.
The Afterlives of Egyptian History expands on the traditional academic approach of studying the original function and sociopolitical circumstances of ancient Egyptian objects, texts, and sites to examine their secondary lives by exploring their reuse, modification, and reinterpretation.
Written in honor of the Egyptologist, Edward Bleiberg, this volume brings together a group of luminous scholars from a wide range of fields, including Egyptian archaeology, philology, conservation, and art, to explore the historical circumstances, as well as political and economic situations, of people who have come into contact with ancient Egypt, both in antiquity and in more recent times.
Contributor Affiliations:
Yekaterina Barbash, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
Lisa Bruno, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
Simon Connor, F.R.S.-FNRS, Brussels, Belgium and University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
Richard Fazzini, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
Peter Lacovara, Ancient Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage Fund, Albany, NY USA
Ronald J. Leprohon, University of Toronto, Canada
Mary McKercher, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
Edmund Meltzer, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California USA
Joachim Friedrich Quack, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio USA
Paul Edmund Stanwick, independent scholar, New York, NY USA
Emily Teeter, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
Kathy Zurek-Doule, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
Автор: Barbash, Tom Название: Dakota winters ISBN: 1471128407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471128400 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 9490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The highly anticipated new novel from the much-lauded author of Stay Up With Me, set in the famous Dakota building in the year preceding John Lennon`s assassination
Автор: Barbash Tom Название: The Dakota Winters ISBN: 0062258214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062258212 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 14950.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination
It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter, is there to greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy's stalled career, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics, to the Hollywood Hills, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson, Ted and Joan Kennedy, and a seagoing John Lennon.
But the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father's professional and spiritual reinvention, the more he questions his own path, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond. By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family saga, a page-turning social novel, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City and the country at large.
--Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air
Автор: Barbash Tom Название: Stay Up with Me ISBN: 0062258133 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062258137 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 9750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In the tradition of classic short stories by John Cheever and Tobias Wolff, those in Tom Barbash's evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect to one another and to the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in The Break interferes with her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in Balloon Night persists in hosting an annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade-floats-be-inflated party, while trying to keep the myth of his marriage equally afloat. Barbash laces his narratives with sharp humor, psychological acuity, and pathos, creating deeply resonant and engaging stories that pierce the heart and linger in the imagination.
--Brooklyn Daily Edge
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