John Ransom Phillips: a Contemporary Book of the Dead - Hardcover

Hawass, Zahi A.; Doniger, Wendy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555953158 ISBN 13: 9781555953157

Verlag: Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S., 2009

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John Ransom Phlllips: A Contemporary Book of the Dead charts and affirms the Egyptian tradition of preparing for the afterlife by celebrating our earthly existence in all its fullness. Using watercolors on papyrus - an echo of the Book of the Dead incantations written on papyrus scrolls buried with mummies in ancient Egypt - this collection of colorful paintings creates a contemporary interpretation of how human beings contemplate their earthly and spiritual existence. Phillips's work is a vivid visual exploration into universal and timeless themes of life, love, fear, hope, and sublime happiness that combine into the human experience.
Commentaries by authors Zahi Hawass and Wendy Doniger place the images in historical and spiritual context with the ancient texts and argue that his body of work is a continuation of the celebration of life, rebirth, and transformation.

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John Ransom Phillips is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,Washington, D.C., and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. He has been a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Zahi Hawass is the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Director of Excavations at Giza, Saqqara, and the Bahariya Oasis, Egypt. Most recently, he was instrumental in sending the touring exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs to the United States. Wendy Doniger is a noted author of nearly 30 books and is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.

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• Verlag: Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1555953158
• ISBN 13: 9781555953157
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Ransom Philips John
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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