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Rethinking Celtic Art.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garrow, Duncan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Celtic.
- Art, Celtic.
- Great Britain--Antiquities, Celtic.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (531 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 in the context of our latest ideas about Iron Age and Romano-British society. The contributions move beyond the traditional concerns with artistic styles and continental links, to consider the material nature of objects, their social effects and their role in practices such as exchange and burial. The aesthetic impa
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781782978237
- 1782978232
- 9781782978213
- 1782978216
- OCLC:
- 884014556
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