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Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin Edited by Nicola Crüsemann, Margarete van Ess, Markus Hilgert, and Beate Salje For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy Over one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholarly world. Founded at the end of the fifth developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in millennium BC, Uruk was the main force for urbanization in what has come to be called the Uruk period (4000– the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isola- 3200 BC), during which small, agricultural villages gradually gave way to a larger urban center with a stratified tion, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples society, complex governmental bureaucracy, and monumental architecture and art. It was here that we find, of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. circa 3400 BC, protocuneiform script—the earliest known form of writing. One of the most fascinating Mesopo- As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes ground- tamian sites ever discovered, Uruk is also known for the epic tale of its hero-king Gilgamesh, among the earliest breaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient masterpieces of world literature. production and correctly identifying these remarkable pieces. Designed to become the standard reference for This abundantly illustrated volume offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the decades to come, the book emphasizes the unique role of bronze both as a medium of prestige and artistic inno- archaeological evidence gathered in excavations at Uruk over the past century. More than sixty essays by vation and as a material exceptionally suited for reproduction. renowned scholars provide glimpses into the life, culture, and art of the first great city of the ancient world. This Power and Pathos is published on the occasion of an exhibition on view at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from volume will be indispensable to both specialists and general readers interested in the origins of urbanism. March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum from July 20 through November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from December 6, 2015, through March 20, 2016. NICOLA CRÜSEMANN is codirector at the Junge Museum Spayer, Historical Museum of Pfalz. MARGARETE VAN ESS is scientific director at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. MARKUS HILGERT is professor of JENS M. DAEHNER is associate curator in the Department of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum Summerology and Assyriology at the University of Heidelberg. BEATE SALJE is director of the Museum of the and coauthor of Modern Antiquity: Picasso, De Chirico, Léger, Picabia (Getty Publications, 2011). KENNETH Ancient Near East in Berlin. LAPATIN is associate curator in the Department of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is the editor of The Berthouville Silver Treasure and Roman Luxury (Getty Publications, 2014) and coeditor of The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection (Getty Publications, 2012).