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ISBN10: 026251270X, ISBN13: 9780262512701, [publisher: The MIT Press] Softcover The many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries, from Ancient Egypt (which invented them) to twentieth-century America (which put them in Hollywood epics).Nearly every empire worthy of the name-from ancient Rome to the United States-has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks-giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects-serve no practical purpose. For much of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople, and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York. New obelisks and even obelisk-shaped buildings rose as well-the Washington Monument being a noted example. Obelisks, everyone seems to sense, connote some very special sort of power. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries-what they meant to the Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years. In each culture obelisks have taken on new meanings and associations. To the Egyptians, the obelisk was the symbol of a pharaoh's right to rule and connection to the divine. In ancient Rome, obelisks were the embodiment of Rome's coming of age as an empire. To nineteenth-century New Yorke ...

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ISBN10: 026251270X, ISBN13: 9780262512701, [publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge MA 2009] Softcover 24.0 x 19.0cms, 384pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback with French flaps. The chapters are: the obelisks of ancient Egypt; the obelisks of Rome; Middle Ages to Renaissance; the High Renaissance; moving the Vatican obelisk; Egyptology, antiquarianism & magic; Baroque readings, Athanasius Kircher & obelisks; grandeur, real & delusional; the 18th century, new perpectives; Napoleon, Champollion & Egypt; Cleopatra's needles, London & New York; the 20th century & beyond.
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Cambridge, Mass The Burndy Library 2009 Softcover VG-(Page edges slightly soiled in spots; otherwise quite nice. ) Yellow and gray illus. wraps, French flaps, 383 pp., many BW illus. "Ths history of obelisks is a story of technical achievement, imperial conquest, Christian piety and triumphalism, egotism, scholarly brilliance, political hubris, bigoted nationalism, democratic self-assurance, Modernist austerity, and Hollywood kitsch--in short, the story of Western civilization." (flap).

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ISBN10: 026251270X, ISBN13: 9780262512701, [publisher: MIT Press Ltd] Softcover The many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries, from Ancient Egypt (which invented them) to twentieth-century America (which put them in Hollywood epics). Series: Publications of the Burndy Library. Num Pages: 384 pages, 131 figures. BIC Classification: AMGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 242 x 189 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1078. . 2009. y First edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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-MIT Press (2009)- 2009 Trade paperback First edition first impression 2009. 384 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Near fine. Spine uncreased. The many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries, from Ancient Egypt (which invented them) to twentieth-century America (which put them in Hollywood epics). Nearly every empire worthy of the name-from ancient Rome to the United States-has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks-giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects-serve no practical purpose. For much of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople, and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York. New obelisks and even obelisk-shaped buildings rose as well-the Washington Monument being a noted example. Obelisks, everyone seems to sense, connote some very special sort of power. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries-what they meant to the Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years. In each culture obelisks have taken on new meanings and associations. To the Egyptians, the obelisk was the symbol of a pharaoh's right to rule and connection to the divine. In ancient Rome, obelisks were the embodiment of Rome's coming of age as an em ...

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