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The Householders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

The Householders

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-24
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How the poet Robert Duncan and the artist Jess made the household part of their separate and collaborative creative practice. “I'm a householder,” the poet Robert Duncan once explained. “My whole idea of being able to work was to have a household.” In this book, Tara McDowell examines the household (physical and conceptual) that Duncan established with the artist Jess, beginning in 1951 when the two men exchanged marriage vows, and ending with Duncan's death in 1988. For Duncan and Jess, the household—rather than the studio, gallery, or collective—provided the support structure for their art. Indeed, McDowell argues convincingly, their work was coextensive with their household. T...

Art of Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Art of Empire

"This publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)"--Page v.

Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 475

Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-08-13
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

An archaeological, historical, and art historical study of a remarkable early church excavated at Amheida in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis): A Fourth-Century Church. Volume 1: The Excavations is an archaeological, historical, and art historical study of a remarkable basilica-church excavated at Amheida in Dakhla Oasis. This church, excavated between 2012 and 2023, dates to the fourth century CE and therefore is among the earliest purpose-built churches in Egypt. It also contains one of the oldest, if not the oldest, excavated Christian funerary crypts in the country. The church at Amheida thus offers a wealth of new data on early Christianity in Egypt, particularly with respect to the earliest phases of Christian art and architecture and burial customs. Aravecchia presents a systematic treatment of the stratigraphy, building techniques, materials, features, architecture, decoration, and finds of the church, carefully contextualized in contemporary developments in early Christianity in the late antique Great Oasis and Egypt more broadly.

Amheida II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 461

Amheida II

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-14
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of Columbia University and sponsored by NYU since 2008, are investigating all aspects of social life and material culture at the administrative center of ancient Trimithis. The excavations so far have focused on three areas of this very large site: a centrally located upper-class fourth-century AD house with wall paintings, an adjoining school, and underlying remains of a Roman bath complex; a more mo...

The Great Oasis of Egypt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

The Great Oasis of Egypt

Explores the history and archaeology of two oases, remote but closely tied to the Nile valley for thousands of years.

The House of Serenos, Part II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 598

The House of Serenos, Part II

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-09-06
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

"This book is one of several devoted to publishing the archaeology of the large house now known as the "House of Serenos" (or more technically as B(uilding) 1 in Area 2.1) of Amheida, the ancient Roman city of Trimithis in the Dakhla Oasis of the Western Desert of Egypt, administratively today part of the New Valley Governorate. Amheida V published the analysis and catalogue of the pottery (published by ISAW, August 2020); Amheida VII will contain the analysis and catalogue of the small finds from B1; and a subsequent volume in the Amheida series will record and analyze the extensive paintings and decorations of B1. The present volume synthesizes the detailed archaeology information presente...

The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City

This book examines the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in the thirteenth century and argues that the figures conveyed a political message of Christian ascendancy and Jewish submission.

The Red Monastery Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

The Red Monastery Church

This landmark, interdisciplinary publication of the Red Monastery church, the most important Christian monument in Egypt's Nile Valley, highlights its remarkable and newly conserved paintings and architectural sculpture.

An Oasis City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

An Oasis City

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-01
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Scattered through the vast expanse of stone and sand that makes up Egypt’s Western Desert are several oases. These islands of green in the midst of the Sahara owe their existence to springs and wells drawing on ancient aquifers. In antiquity, as today, they supported agricultural communities, going back to Neolithic times but expanding greatly in the millennium from the Saite pharaohs to the Roman emperors. New technologies of irrigation and transportation made the oases integral parts of an imperial economy. Amheida, ancient Trimithis, was one of those oasis communities. Located in the western part of the Dakhla Oasis, it was an important regional center, reaching a peak in the Roman peri...

Handbook of Emotion, Adult Development, and Aging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 493

Handbook of Emotion, Adult Development, and Aging

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-10-24
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

The field of emotions research has recently seen an unexpected period of growth and expansion, both in traditional psychological literature and in gerontology. The Handbook of Emotion, Adult Development, and Aging provides a broad overview and summary of where this field stands today, specifically with reference to life course issues and aging. Written by a distinguished group of contributing authors, the text is grounded in a life span developmental framework, while advancing a multidimensional view of emotion and its development and incorporating quantitative and qualitative research findings.The book is divided into five parts. Part One discusses five major theoretical perspectives includ...