Author: Christopher PaynePublisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Superbly illustrated, this book not only describes the work of
Animals in Bronze
Author: Christopher PaynePublisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Superbly illustrated, this book not only describes the work of
Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
Author: Andrew ShaplandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009151541
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Reassesses the animal depictions of Bronze Age Crete in terms of human-animal relations rather than a love of nature.
Champion Animals
Author: Herbert HaseltinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Item is centred round the collection of the artist's sculptures in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the text largely consists of the artist's edited memoirs.
Ai Weiwei
Author: Ai WeiweiPublisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Animal sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This title looks at Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Circle of Heads', his twelve large bronze animal heads depicting the ancient Chinese zodiac.
Bronze Sculpture of Les Animaliers, Reference and Price Guide
Author: Jane HorswellPublisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology
Author: Umberto AlbarellaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199686475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites - zooarchaeology - has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. This Handbook offers a cutting-edge, global compendium of zooarchaeology that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in past human cultures. Case studies from across five continents explore ahuge range of human-animal interactions from an array of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts, and also illuminate the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions instudying these relationships.
Tibetan Silver, Gold and Bronze Objects and the Aesthetics of Animals in the Era Before Empire
Author: John Vincent BellezzaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781407354354
Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This archaeological and art-historical study is woven around rock art and ancient metallic articles attributed to Tibet. The silver bowls, gold finial, and copper alloy spouted jars and trapezoidal plaques featured are assigned to the Iron Age and Protohistoric period. These rare objects are adorned with zoomorphic subjects mimicking those found in rock art and embody an artistic zeitgeist widely diffused in Central Eurasia in Late Prehistory. Diverse sources of inspiration and technological capability are revealed in these objects and rock art, shedding light on their transcultural dimension. The archaeological and aesthetic materials in this work prefigure the Tibetan cosmopolitanism of early historic times promoted through the spread of Buddhist ideas, art and craft from abroad.
Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age
Author: Joakim GoldhahnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.
The Symbolic Role of Animals in Archaeology
Author: Pam J. CrabtreePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum
ISBN: 1949057003
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The papers in this volume represent a range of approaches to the study of the symbolic roles of animals in human cultures. The theme that unites these papers is their use of a variety of different kinds of evidenceincluding archaeological, faunal, historical, ethnographic, artistic, and folkloric datain the reconstruction of animal symbolism.
Animal Classification in Central China
Author: Ningning DongPublisher: International
ISBN: 9781407357928
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This book, integrating multiple lines of evidence and their contextual information, attempts to investigate folk animal classification in central China during the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age through archaeology.