Nefertiti's face : the creation of an icon
Tyldesley, Joyce A.2019
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Nefertiti's face adorns postcards, tea towels and mouse-mats across the world: she has featured in computer games and jazz albums, and one woman even spent half a million pounds on plastic surgery to resemble her. This enduring obsession is the result of one object: the beautiful and mysterious bust of her, created by the sculptor Thutmos and now in Berlin's Neues Museum. In this original and wide-ranging study, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldersley explores the history of the bust, from its origins in a busy Amarna workshop in ancient Egypt, to its rediscovery and controversial removal to Europe in 1912.
Main title:
Nefertiti's face : the creation of an icon / Joyce Tyldesley.
Author:
Tyldesley, Joyce A., author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2019.
Collation:
viii, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781781250518 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
932.014092932.014932.014 TYLD
Language:
English
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BRN:
1287013
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