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About us
art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
The Quest for Immortality
| Publisher | Prestel |
| Year | 2002 |
| Cover | Cloth with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-3-7913-2735-8 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Weight | 1785 g |
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| Author(s) | Erik Hornung, Betsy Byran |
| Contributors | G A Gaballa, Faiza Haikal, Terence DuQuesne et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| Article ID | art-60345 |
This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and monumental and small-scale sculpture reveal the reverence and awe with which the Egyptians considered the mystery of death.
The essays in this book explore Egyptian art history, customs and worship, with specific focus on the Amduat, a book devoted to the pharaoh's 12-hour journey to the afterlife. Additional writings detail the background of the collection and focus upon the role of art in ancient Egypt.
