Dawn of Egyptian Art

New York / New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x1x10. First edition. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket faintly toned. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2011 Hard Cover. xii, 275 pp. With illustrations of more than 180 objects created from about 4000 to 2650 BC, Dawn of Egyptian Art presents the art forms and iconography in which the early Egyptians recorded their beliefs about the land where they lived, the yearly events that took place there, and what they thought was important to the eternal survival of their world. Comprehensive texts explore the origins and early development of the culture of ancient Egypt while discussing the relationship between image and writing as well as the representation of the self and the universe.