Minoan zoomorphic culture : between bodies and things / Emily S.K. Anderson, The Johns Hopkins University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Emily S. K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Greece--Crete--Hisstory--To 1500.

Art and society.

Zoomorphism.

Animals in art.

Art, Minoan--Themes, motives.

Art, Minoan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 418 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Since the earliest era of archaeological discovery on Crete, vivid renderings of animals have been celebrated as defining elements of Minoan culture. Animals were crafted in a rich range of substances and media in the broad Minoan world, from tiny seal-stones to life-size frescoes. In this study, Emily Anderson fundamentally rethinks the status of these zoomorphic objects. Setting aside their traditional classification as 'representations' or signs, she recognizes them as distinctively real embodiments of animals in the world. These fabricated animals -- engaged with in quiet tombs, bustling harbors, and monumental palatial halls -- contributed in unique ways to Bronze Age Aegean sociocultural life and affected the status of animals within people's lived experience. Some gave new substance and contour to familiar biological species, while many exotic and fantastical beasts gained physical reality only in these fabricated embodiments. As real presences, the creatures that the Minoans crafted artfully toyed with expectation and realized new dimensions within and between animalian identities"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Life among the animalian in Bronze Age Crete and the Southern Aegean

Craftiness and productivity in bodily things : the changing contexts of Cretan zoomorphic vessels

Stone poets : between lion and person in glyptic and oral culture of Bronze Age Crete and the Aegean

Likeness and integration among extraordinary creatures : rethinking Minoan "Composite" beasts

Singular, seriated, similar : helmets, shields and ikria as intuitive animalian things

Moving toward life : painted walls and novel animalian presences in Aegean spaces

Concluding thoughts : restless bodies in the Minoan world

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 May 2024).

ISBN:

9781009452069

1009452061

9781009452052

1009452053

9781009452045

1009452045