"That infinite image creates an endless echoing, which is almost dizzying and supernatural."
Curator Kim Benzel on an Assyrian relief panel.
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How the dizzying repetition of these Assyrian reliefs gives them hyperreality
"That infinite image creates an endless echoing, which is almost dizzying and supernatural."
Kim Benzel
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Kim Benzel
Curator in Charge, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art
Curator in Charge, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Assyrian
ca. 883–859 BCE