I've got my hands on a few less usual books on Egypt recently:

Robins, G.
1994 Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art. Austin: University of Texas Press.

This is a lot confusing so far - and I don't agree with some of his ideas. It's full of good info and references though, but I'm not sure it deserves its place as something of the benchmark book on this subject. I think rather it's because it's the only serious one available that's published reasonably recently.

Iverson, E.
1975 Canon and Proportion in Egyptian Art. Warminster: Aris and Phillips Ltd.

This book provided a lot of content for Robin's work above, and in fact I have found it more grounded in the contextual reality of Egypt, rather than the abstract numbers that Robins seems to get lost in a little. There are lots of excellent and helpful illustrations.

Wilkinson, R. H.
2003 Reading Egyptian Art. A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.

This is a brilliant little book, full of good solid information and excellent illustrations galore. He looks at hieroglyphic symbols one at a time and at the meanings they were attributed, and why. Two pages for each of about 50+ glyphs, and a nice gardners sign list at the back which is useful.

This is the first book I've read carefull of Richard Wilkinsons' [Director of the University of Arizona Egyptian Expeditions] but I will be making a point of reading more.

Dave Light.






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