Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period by Craig W. Tyson & Virginia R. Herrmann

Author:Craig W. Tyson & Virginia R. Herrmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Colorado

14. Analyses of style have often been used to study regional variation and self-identity. See Wobst (1999); Winter (2010, 434). Winter (2010, 434) defines “style” as a “sense of shared characteristics of form and sometimes of content in a number of works, such that the group would constitute a recognizable typological unit distinct from other units.” Furthermore, Winter argues that style and iconography are not two discrete categories and that style contributes to the meaning of an image. On this point, see Winter (2010, 407, 421–22). For Winter (2010, 407), style contributes to meaning by betraying “unconscious expressions of underlying cultural attitudes and patterns,” or “it can be a consciously deployed strategic instrument with specific rhetorical ends.” For an overview of stylistic analyses in anthropological archaeology, see Conkey (1989). Note, however, the difficulty identifying which variable elements indicate a regional style versus those that result from the preference of individual artisans. On this point, see Herrmann (2005, 11–20).

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