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Visual culture and archaeology : art and social life in prehistoric south-east Italy / Robin Skeates.
Penn Museum Library GN776.22.I8 S54 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skeates, Robin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and society--Italy.
- Art and society.
- Art, Prehistoric--Italy.
- Art, Prehistoric.
- Art, Italian.
- Italy--Social life and customs--To 1500.
- Italy.
- Manners and customs.
- Italy--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 244 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Duckworth, 2005.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: visual culture and archaeology 1
- What is visual culture? 1
- Archaeological approaches to visual culture 2
- Questions about prehistoric art 7
- Visual communication and transformation 9
- Art and social life in prehistoric South-East Italy 12
- Categories of analysis 15
- 2 Body art: early ornaments and pigments 21
- Visualising the body 21
- The Early Upper Palaeolithic 22
- Ornaments and pigments 23
- Body art 26
- 3 Performance art: the Gravettian florescence 29
- Performance 29
- The Mid Upper Palaeolithic 30
- Gravettian burials, ornaments and engraved objects 31
- Performance art 36
- 4 Figurative art: transformations in the Late Upper Palaeolithic 40
- Figurative representation 40
- The Late Upper Palaeolithic 41
- Epigravettian visual material 42
- Figurative art 50
- 5 Ritual art: complex hunter-gatherers 53
- Abstraction 53
- The Final Upper Palaeolithic 54
- Final Epigravettian, Romanellian and Epiromanellian visual material 56
- Ritual art 70
- 6 Community art: the first farmers 75
- Symbolising boundaries and identities 75
- The Earliest Neolithic 76
- The art of the first farmers 79
- Community art 83
- 7 Animate art: Later Neolithic elaboration 87
- Fetishism 88
- The Later Neolithic 89
- Bodily and abstract art 93
- Animate art 113
- 8 Status art: the reinvention of tradition in the Final Neolithic 120
- Symbolising status 121
- The Final Neolithic 121
- The reinvention of traditional art 123
- Status art 131
- 9 Prestigious art: Copper Age display 136
- Displaying prestige 136
- The Copper Age 137
- The art of display 139
- Prestigious art 153
- 10 Monumental art: Middle Bronze Age advertising 159
- Commemoration 159
- The Middle Bronze Age 160
- The art of advertising 164
- Monumental art 187
- 11 Conclusion: visual culture in prehistoric South-East Italy 194
- Appendix Selected prehistoric sites in South-East Italy 199.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0715633902
- OCLC:
- 58555138
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