The Origins Of Monsters

Image And Cognition In The First Age Of Mechanical Reproduction

by David Wengrow
language: english
Publisher: Princeton University Press, April of 2020 ‧
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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 intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it wa

The Origins Of Monsters

Image And Cognition In The First Age Of Mechanical Reproduction

by David Wengrow

Property Description
ISBN: 9780691202396
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: April of 2020
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 184
Format: Book
Collection: The Rostovtzeff Lectures
Categories: Books in English > Art > History of Art
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780691202396

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Wengrow

David Wengrow é professor de Arqueologia Comparada no Institute of Archaeology da University College de Londres e foi professor visitante na Universidade de Nova Iorque. É autor de três livros, entre os quais What Makes Civilization?. Wengrow faz investigação arqueológica no terreno em várias regiões de África e do Médio Oriente.

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