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How ancient Europeans saw the world : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times /
The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: THEORY AND METHOD; Chapter 1: Of Monsters and Flowers; Chapter 2: Seeing and Shaping Objects; Chapter 3: The Visual Worlds of Early Europe; Chapter 4: Frame, Focus, Visualization; PART II: MATERIAL: OBJECTS AND ARRANGEMENTS; Chapter 5: Pottery: The Visual Ecology of the Everyday; Chapter 6: Attraction and Enchantment: Fibulae; Chapter 7: Status and Violence: Swords and Scabbards; Chapter 8: Arranging Spaces: Objects in Graves; Chapter 9: Performances: Objects and Bodies in Motion.
- Chapter 10: New Media in the Late Iron Age: Coins and WritingPART III: INTERPRETING THE PATTERNS; Chapter 11: Changing Patterns in Objects and in Perception; Chapter 12: Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns; CONCLUSION; Chapter 13: The Visuality of Objects, Past and Present; Bibliographic Essay; References Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z.