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Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, wh...
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Schmandt-Besserat, Denise, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut When Writing Met Art : From Symbol to Story / Denise Schmandt-Besserat. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2007 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing and Art -- I How Writing Shaped Art -- One Pottery Painting -- Two Glyptic -- Three The Uruk Vase: Sequential Narrative -- Four Wall and Floor Painting -- II How Art Shaped Writing -- Five Funerary Inscriptions -- Six Votive and Dedicatory Inscriptions -- Seven The Stele of Hammurabi -- Conclusion: The Interface between Writing and Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which she published in Before Writing: From Counting to Cuneiform and How Writing Came About, was widely reported in professional journals and the popular press. In 1999, American Scientist chose How Writing Came About as one of the "100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science." In When Writing Met Art, Schmandt-Besserat expands her history of writing into the visual realm of communication. Using examples of ancient Near Eastern writing and masterpieces of art, she shows that between 3500 and 3000 BC the conventions of writing—everything from its linear organization to its semantic use of the form, size, order, and placement of signs—spread to the making of art, resulting in artworks that presented complex visual narratives in place of the repetitive motifs found on preliterate art objects. Schmandt-Besserat then demonstrates art's reciprocal impact on the development of writing. She shows how, beginning in 2700-2600 BC, the inclusion of inscriptions on funerary and votive art objects emancipated writing from its original accounting function. To fulfill its new role, writing evolved to replicate speech; this in turn made it possible to compile, organize, and synthesize unlimited amounts of information; and to preserve and disseminate information across time and space. Schmandt-Besserat's pioneering investigation of the interface between writing and art documents a key turning point in human history, when two of our most fundamental information media reciprocally multiplied their capacities to communicate. When writing met art, literate civilization was born. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Art, Ancient Middle East. Art, Prehistoric Middle East. Writing and art Middle East. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/713345 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292795495 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292795495/original |
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