Aegean Bronze Age Art Aegean Bronze Age Art

Aegean Bronze Age Art

Meaning in the Making

    • $54.99
    • $54.99

Publisher Description

How do we interpret ancient art created before written texts? Scholars usually put ancient art into conversation with ancient texts in order to interpret its meaning. But for earlier periods without texts, such as in the Bronze Age Aegean, this method is redundant. Using cutting-edge theory from art history, archaeology, and anthropology, Carl Knappett offers a new approach to this problem by identifying distinct actions - such as modelling, combining, and imprinting - whereby meaning is scaffolded through the materials themselves. By showing how these actions work in the context of specific bodies of material, Knappett brings to life the fascinating art of Minoan Crete and surrounding areas in novel ways. With a special focus on how creativity manifests itself in these processes, he makes an argument for not just how creativity emerges through specific material engagements but also why creativity might be especially valued at particular moments.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2020
June 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
418
Pages
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
SELLER
Cambridge University Press
SIZE
68.8
MB

More Books Like This

The Tiny and the Fragmented The Tiny and the Fragmented
2018
Scandalous Space Scandalous Space
2019
Time and Its Object Time and Its Object
2021
Theatre/Archaeology Theatre/Archaeology
2005
Time in the History of Art Time in the History of Art
2018
Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia
2020

More Books by Carl Knappett

Ancient Art Revisited Ancient Art Revisited
2022
The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
2022
Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World
2018
Minoan Architecture and Urbanism Minoan Architecture and Urbanism
2017
Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
2016
Material Agency Material Agency
2008