Reference : Portrait versus Ideal Image

	Document type :	Parts of books : Contribution to encyclopedias, dictionaries...
	Discipline(s) :	Arts & humanities : Art & art history
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/95049

Title :	Portrait versus Ideal Image
Language :	English
Alternative title :	[fr] Portrait ou image idéal(isé)e
	[de] Porträt versus Idealbildnis
Author, co-author :	Laboury, Dimitri [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences historiques > Archéologie égyptienne >]
Publication date :	30-Oct-2010
Main document title :	UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Alternative title :	[fr] Encyclopédie d'Égyptologie de l'University of California - Los Angeles
Editor :	Wendrich, Willeke
Publisher :	UCLA
Pages :	18 pages
City :	Los Angeles
Country :	USA
Keywords :	[en] Ancient Egypt ; Portraiture ; Ancient Egyptian Art
Abstract :	[en] Ancient Egyptian art’s concern with individualized human representation has generated much debate among Egyptologists about the very existence of portraiture in Pharaonic society. The issue has often—if not always—been thought of in terms of opposition between portrait and ideal image, being a major topic in the broader question of realism and formal relation to reality in ancient Egyptian art. After a brief analysis of the problem from a theoretical point of view, the article deals with the Egyptological reception of the subject and considers the concepts involved in the notion of portrait within the context of ancient Egyptian thought. A few significant cases selected from the corpus of royal statuary are then investigated in order to elucidate the motives and modalities of the interaction between portrait and ideal image in ancient Egyptian individualized representations.
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals ; Students
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/95049
Other URL :	http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9370v0rz
Mentions required by the publisher for OA :	Short Citation: Laboury, 2010, Portrait versus Ideal Image. UEE. Full Citation: Laboury, Dimitri, 2010, Portrait versus Ideal Image. In Willeke Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles. http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0025jjv0

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