[PDF.43wn] When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story

When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story

[PDF.ft60] When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Art was the vehicle that turned accounting into poetry|By Janet Chennault|Interesting for the amateur but detailed enough for the critical thinker, Bessarat tells the story of how the need to ensure the persistence of your name, and therefore soul, provided a transition from words recording economic transactions to words being a means of expression.|7 of 7 people found the fol|About the Author|DENISE SCHMANDT-BESSERAT is Professor Emerita of Art and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work on the origins of writing has been covered by Scientific American, Time, Life, the New York Times, the Washington Post

Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which she published in Before Writing: From Counting to Cuneiform and How Writing Came About, was widely reported in professional journals an...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story   |  Denise Schmandt-Besserat. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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