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This catalogue examines the ways 29 artists have invoked silence to shape space and consciousness over the last century

Chave is Professor Emerita of Art History at the Graduate Center CUNY

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Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art Menil Publications ” for over thirty yearsThis 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