Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art Menil Publications Sonia Gechtoff

Sonia Gechtoff

this catalogue features an insightful look at and selected details of Horn’s large-scale—sometimes over ten feet tall—works on paper

” for over thirty years Roni Horn (b

As her work developed

1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile

Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art Menil Publications Sonia GechtoffThis innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objectsa Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among themin the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Essays by 13 authors written with the layperson in mind employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and