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New. 192 p. Includes Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. In Clay: Themes and Variations from Ancient Mesopotamia, Paul Williamson recreates sixty ancient texts to reflect the variety of the source materials and explore enduring strands of meaning. Highlighting themes of love, marriage, birth, death, friendship, authority and atonement, they include the principal creation and flood narratives, the legend of Gilgamesh, the story of the goddess Inanna and her wayward husband Dumuzi, and a host of medical, legal and astrological texts. A selection of new artworks by Debbie Loftus adds a rich, contemporary visual dimension to this sparkling return to the social, intellectual and spiritual roots of modern western culture. Paul Williamson writes on music, art and literature. Among his books are Ekphrasis (2014) and The Art of Borrowing (2016). His many musical texts include the words for Panathenaia, premiered at the British Museum in 2015. Debbie Loftus, who trained at the Chelsea School of Art, has a background in fine art, illustration and photography. Her work has recently been shown in London, Cambridge, Berlin and Stockholm.
Add this copy of Clay: Themes and Variations from Ancient Mesopotamia to cart. $86.62, new condition, Sold by Bookstable, ships from London, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2018 by O/Modernt.
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Loftus, Debbie. New. Shrink-wrapped. 210 p. Includes Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. CLAY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS FROM ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA imaginatively reworks sixty ancient texts in a multiplicity of styles, reflecting the marvellous variety of the source materials and their inextinguishable relevance in the modern world. The first part of CLAY includes several tales that have become familiar from other sources: notably two creation narratives, the Mesopotamian flood story and an epic of self-discovery. The second part explores themes of sexual love, marriage, birth, death and atonement. Witty, illuminating, entertaining, and suffused with human feeling, this spectacularly designed book is inventively written in a mix of verse and prose. CLAY also includes 129 original images by artist Debbie Loftus, as well as an Afterword, a Who s Who of characters, a map of ancient Mesopotamia and illustrations of two key cuneiform tablets from the British Museum. Reaching back across five millennia, CLAY creatively invites the reader to revisit ideas and customs from ancient Mesopotamia and to consider their ongoing importance for the way we live now.
