Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art Regular Merchandise Modern and Contemporary Art at

Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection

Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight is the first museum catalogue to explore the dynamic

Kristina Van Dyke is an independent scholar of African art and former director of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

ensuring that the reproductions are as faithful as possible with state-of-the-art printing technology

and modern provenance research to gain insight into the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly about archaeology

Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art Regular Merchandise Modern and Contemporary Art atThis innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objectsa Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among themin the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Essays by 13 authors written with the layperson in mind employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and