Arrest and Movement An Essay on Space and Time in the Representational Art of the Ancient Near East

The beauty of Egyptian, Babylonian, and Cretan art is shot through with oddity. However much we are fascinated by the ancient works, we find ourselves wondering what precisely the artists meant when they rendered objects and indicated spatial relations the way they did. Arrest and Movement is the only book to analyze pre-Greek art in terms of issues such as space and narrative. It is a landmark book that will bring to students and museum-goers deeper understanding of this eloquent but seemingly eccentric art.Groenewegen-Frankfort, H. A. is the author of 'Arrest and Movement An Essay on Space and Time in the Representational Art of the Ancient Near East' with ISBN 9780674046566 and ISBN 0674046560.