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Rethinking Celtic art /

"'Early Celtic art' - typified by the iconic shields, swords, torcs and chariot gear we can see in places such as the British Museum - has been studied in isolation from the rest of the evidence from the Iron Age. This book reintegrates the art with the archaeology, placing the finds...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Garrow, Duncan, Gosden, Chris, 1955-, Hill, J. D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxbow, [2008]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: re-integrating 'Celtic' Art; Chapter 2: The time and space of Celtic Art: interrogating the 'Technologies of Enchantment' database; Chapter 3: A Celtic mystery: some thoughts on the genesis of insular Celtic art; Chapter 4: Seeing red: the aesthetics of martial objects in the British and Irish Iron Age; Chapter 5: Reflections on Celtic Art: a re-examination of mirror decoration; Chapter 6: What can be inferred from the regional stylistic diversity of Iron Age coinage?
  • Chapter 7: Technologies of the body: Iron Age and Roman grooming and displayChapter 8: Celtic Art in Roman Britain; Chapter 9: Material, style and identity in first century AD metalwork, with particular reference to the Seven Sisters Hoard; Chapter 10: On the aesthetics of the Ancient Britons; Chapter 11: Comment I. Contextualising Iron Age art; Chapter 12: Comment II. The unmaking of Iron Age identities: art after the Roman conquest; Colour Plates.