The Origins of Monsters : Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

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It has often been claimed that ""monsters""--Supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intrigu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wengrow, D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Series:Rostovtzeff lectures.
Subjects:
Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch, > 1870-1952.
Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch, > 1870-1952
Art, Prehistoric.
Art, Ancient.
Archaeology and art.
Animals, Mythical, in art.
Cognition and culture.
Art préhistorique.
Art antique.
Archéologie et art.
Animaux fabuleux dans l'art.
Cognition et culture.
ART > Subjects & Themes > General.
RELIGION > General.
Animals, Mythical, in art
Archaeology and art
Art, Ancient
Art, Prehistoric
Cognition and culture
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Image and Economy in the Ancient World: The Bronze Age of Mikhail Rostovtzeff; 2 Materials for an Epidemiology of Culture; 3 The Hidden Shaman: Fictive Anatomy in Paleolithic and Neolithic Art; 4 Urban Creations: The Cultural Ecology of Composite Animals; 5 Counterintuitive Images and the Mechanical Arts; 6 Modes of Image Transfer: Transformative, Integrative, Protective; CONCLUSION: Persistent, but Not Primordial: Emergent Properties of Cognition; Notes; References; Index.

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