Nefertiti's face : the creation of an icon
Tyldesley, Joyce A.2018
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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, 2018.
Collation:
viii, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781781250501 (hbk)
Dewey class:
932.014092932.014092NEF
Language:
English
BRN:
2608451