Ancient Mesopotamia & Its Enduring Legacies | Zainab Bahrani
We talked to Professor Zainab Bahrani about her books and research. Professor Bahrani is the author and editor of multiple books and articles on Ancient Near Eastern and East Mediterranean art and archaeology, art theory, historiography, and philosophies of representation.
Zainab Bahrani is the Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. A specialist in the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and the eastern Mediterranean world, she is the author of several books. Her most recent book, “The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity”(University of Chicago Press, 2014) is based on her 2010-2011 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Oxford, and was the winner of the Lionel Trilling Prize in 2015. Addiotnally, Zainab has been a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Iraq, Syria and Turkey. She is currently the Director of a Columbia University field project, Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments.
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