Collages; Montages; Photographs; Men; Heads (Anatomy); Moral aspects of war; Pessimism
"Henderson is rarely accorded much status in accounts of postwar art but he was a formative influence on members of London's Independent Group, especially [Eduardo] Paolozzi and [Richard] Hamilton. In the late 1940s and 1950s he photographed...
Collages; Montages; Photographs; Men; Heads (Anatomy); Moral aspects of war; Pessimism; Details
"Henderson is rarely accorded much status in accounts of postwar art but he was a formative influence on members of London's Independent Group, especially [Eduardo] Paolozzi and [Richard] Hamilton. In the late 1940s and 1950s he photographed...
Sculpture; Figurines; Human body; Heads (Anatomy); Animals; Lions
"One of the earliest sculptures discovered to date is an extraordinary ivory statuette, which may be as old as 30,000 BCE, from a cave at Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany. Carved out of mammoth ivory and nearly a foot tall - a truly huge image...
"From the 'King's Grave' at Ur comes a splendid lyre that, in its restored state, resembles the instrument depicted in the feast scene on the Standard of Ur [from Tomb 779]. A magnificent bull's head caps the instrument's sound box. It is...
"For their palace walls the Assyrian kings commissioned extensive series of narrative reliefs exalting royal power and piety. The sculptures record not only battlefield victories but also the slaying of wild animals. […] The degree of...
1) Pyramid of Menkaure, 2) Pyramid of Khafre, 3) Mortuary temple of Khafre, 4) Causeway, 5) Great Sphinx, 6) Valley temple of Khafre, 7) Pyramid of Khufu, 8) Pyramids of the royal family and mastabas of nobles; "From the remains surrounding...
"Every so often as the excavation continued, one of the workmen would shout: 'Another marble here!' In the end, we found ourselves - entranced and speechless - before a group of sculptures lying side by side: from west to east ([in this...
"The Central Court is surrounded by ceremonial areas on the west (top left) with the storage magazines beyond bordering the West Court. On the east side (lower right), the Residential Quarter rises two stories to the level of the Central...
"Watercolor reconstruction of the Queen's Megaron by Piet de Jong. Note that the 'Dolphin Fresco' was found outside to the east and is more likely to have been a floor painting from an upper story." (Caption, p. 173)
From the "Cuneiform Writing" section of the "Art of the Ancient Near East" chapter (Chapter 2). Time periods shown are: pictograph, c. 3100 BCE; early cuneiform sign, c. 2400 BCE; later cuneiform sign, c. 700 BCE. Examples shown...
"In this view, the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, with its famous Hanging Gardens, can be seen just behind and to the right of the Ishtar Gate, to the west of the Processional Way. The Marduk Ziggurat looms up in the far distance on the east...
From Susa (modern Shush, Iran), diagram of one of the lion's head terminals. Elements included are: empty wells, inlay, filigree wire. From the "Technique: Persian Metalworking" section of the "Art of the Ancient Near East"...
