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

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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Main Author: Wengrow, D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Series:Rostovtzeff lectures.
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505 0 |a 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. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-160) and index. 
520 |a 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 was with the rise of cities, elites, and cosmopolitan trade networks that ""monsters"" became widespread features of visual production in the ancient world. Showing how these fantastic images originated and how they were transmitted, David 
546 |a In English. 
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