An archaeology of images : iconology and cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe / / Miranda Aldhouse-Green

• Autore: Aldhouse-Green Miranda J (Miranda Jane)
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 709/.37
• Soggetto topico: Art, Celtic; Symbolism in art; Iron age - Europe
• Classificazione: 15.30
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: images in action; Image and identity: personhood, self and other; Imaging gender: iconographies of difference; Materiality and meaning; Thinking with beasts; Dreaming monsters and shamanic shape-shifters; Paths of perception: ways of seeing, ways of telling; Resistant iconographies: post-colonial perspectives; Postscript: images unlocked?; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Using archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400 and investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued.The book challenges the usual interpretation of statues, reliefs and figurines as passive things to be looked at or worshipped, and reveals them instead as active artefacts designed to be used, handled and broken. It is made clear that the placi
• Altri titoli varianti: Iconology and cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe
• Titolo autorizzato: An archaeology of images
• ISBN: 1-134-52776-4; 0-203-68666-7; 1-280-05278-3; 0-203-64745-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828405203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II