Vision, visuality and the cult image: Mesopotamian cult practices and visual culture in the Early Bronze Age
Powerpoint presentation:
Early Dynastic PeriodSite of sight, rite of sight, the right to sight (R. Holod): approaching visual cultures of the ancient past
Renata Holod’s 60 Second Lecture.
- The situated nature of the act of seeing. The idea that the experience of seeing is very much defined by the nature of locality, preconditioned by the cultural-spatial aspects of place.
- Seeing as a ritualized act. The idea of the spectacle and the spectacular.
- The politics of vision- hidden treasures.
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