History of art Books

Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated book exploring a unique take on Venice for curious travellers, lovers of history, art, architecture, and the environmentally sensitive. This book also conveys a pervasive message of deep environmental and climactic concerns and the tragedy of how a Renaissance Empire has been turned into a contemporary amusement park. A Sketch of Venetian History will enchant, educate, and challenge readers. This book offers a unique portrait of Venice and weaves together many diverse subjects—art, ecology, travel, history, all enriched by original line drawings of a unique style found on every page. A Sketch of Venetian History illuminates the Venetian Republic’s history through six major eras—from its early ecological formations, through its modest beginnings, to the height and potency of the Grand Republic, to its collapse, and to its modern day challenges posed by environmentalism and massive tourism.

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Book SynopsisThe powerful and dynamic legacy of Pacific arts in Aotearoa, as told by the artists themselves. Pacific Arts Aotearoa tells the dynamic and powerful story of Pacific arts in Aotearoa New Zealand. This comprehensive account spans six decades of multidisciplinary Pacific creative genius, remembering the diverse, fresh and energetic contributions of Pacific artists to New Zealand, Oceania and the world. Edited by leading Pacific writer and scholar Lana Lopesi, this book includes over 300 images and contributions from more than 120 artists, curators and community voices, providing new and previously unheard perspectives on this vast and growing legacy, in one volume. Published in association with Pacific Arts, Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa as part of the Pacific Arts Legacy Project, an initiative under the Pacific Arts Strategy.

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Book SynopsisIn 1944, Glasgow received one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world: a collection of over 6,000 artworks of many types spanning centuries and civilisations. The benefactors were Glasgow-born shipping magnate Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell. Burrell’s business success him to amass an extraordinary collection, which he housed in the family home at Hutton Castle in the Scottish borders. When he decided to leave the collection to the nation, he considered donating it to London-based galleries before deciding on Glasgow Corporation, together with the residue of his estate to provide a suitable building. It was many years before the right location was found, and The Burrell Collection finally opened in 1983. This new biography is based on recent research, full access to the Burrell archive and in-depth knowledge of the collection. Sir William was a complicated and private man who shunned publicity, adored his wife, but had a tumultuous relationship with his daughter. In politics Conservative, he campaigned for better housing conditions as long as this didn’t cause further expense to the taxpayer. The authors take a candid and considered view of who William Burrell the man was, what sparked his passion for collecting, and what his gift continues to mean to the city.Trade Review'A superbly researched and meticulously detailed account of his unique collection' * Scottish Society for Art History *

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Book SynopsisAndy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, 'If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings … and there I am. There's nothing behind it.' This book penetrates the surface and explores Warhol’s art from his beginnings as a commercial artist to his apotheosis as a society portrait painter. Vivid illustrations reveal Andy’s worlds: his childhood in Pittsburgh, his chaotic Manhattan mansion and the Silver Factory, where New York’s bright new things hung out and had fun. Series writer Catherine Ingram brings her extensive knowledge to the book, while specially commissioned illustrations by Andrew Rae vividly portray the text.Table of ContentsThe Chimneys of Pittsburgh Julia The Cocoon The Reality of the Icon A Commercial Start in Art School Life Carnegie Art Tech 1945 - 1949 New York Commercial Work 1342 Lexington Avenue The Serious Side of Art Pop Art The Electronic Revolution A First Pop Pop in a Brand Warhol is Rebranded Copycats Machine Art Hollywood Framing the Marilyn Moment Living in the Detail Bullet Marilyns Death and Disaster Series Silver Factory, 1964 - 68, 231 East 47th Street The Scene The Instant Portrait Warhol's Films Out of the Frame: Silver Clouds, 1966 The Pied Piper Vacating the Silver Factory Warhol is Shot The Motive is SCUM Narcissistic Seventies Andy Warhol Enterprises Lunches at the Office "Parties, Parties, Parties, all Winter, all Spring, all Night" The CELEB Mag: Interview The Portrait Business Andy's Mao A Private World for Warhol The Time Capsules Warhol Talks Death Revisited Momentos Mori Church Boy Last Days

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Book SynopsisIn December 1820, at twenty-one years old, Edward Geoffrey Stanley, the future 14th earl of Derby and three-times prime minister, began an extensive tour of continental Europe. By the time of his return to England twenty months later, he had visited many of the foremost centres for art and culture in Europe, and mostly in Italy. In his travel diaries he recorded his intensive social life, his visits to historical sites, his viewings of art collections, his comments on architecture, his admiration of landscapes and his impressions of foreign societies. He was energetic, enthusiastic and discerning: the bridge of Augustus in Umbria gave him 'a stupendous idea of Roman grandeur'; the charm of the towns crowning the Tuscan hills struck him with the same delight that he felt when gazing at one of Poussin's paintings; the waterfall at Terni, which dropped 370 feet into an abyss of spray, was 'awfully magnificent'; while the ceremonies of the Italian Catholic Church he judged to be a blend of mummery, superstition and bigotry. Sights and experiences like these influenced him for the rest of his life. This precious collection of diaries, found only recently and published here for the first time, reveal Edward Stanley to have been a young man of diligence, courage and decisiveness: a future leader with a conspicuous and burgeoning sense of political and social justice. It was these characteristics, seen in early development within these pages, that shaped the man and the extraordinary career to come.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Stanley's Itinerary; Florence-Rome: 16 December 1820 to 9 March 1821; Rome-Naples: 10 March to 27 May 1821; Naples-Venice-Tyrol-Switzerland: 27 May to 17 September 1821; Milan-Naples: 22 September 1821 to 7 April 1822; Bologna-England: 5 May to 8 July 1822; 'Venice'; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Precarious, indebted, and radicalized, artists redirected their creativity from servicing the artworld into an expanded field of organizing in order to construct of a new—if internally fraught—political imaginary set off against the common enemy of the 1%. In the process, they called the bluff of a contemporary art system torn between ideals of radical critique, on the one hand, and an increasing proximity to Wall Street on the other—oftentimes directly targeting major art institutions themselves as sites of action. Tracking the work of groups including MTL, Not an Alternative, t

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Book SynopsisWhy does medieval art matter today? This beautifully illustrated book will examine this question through the lens of the magnificent objects in the Wyvern Collection of Medieval and Early Renaissance art, accompanying the collection's first exhibition in the United States. Works include exquisite examples of metalwork, stone and wood sculpture, and illuminated manuscripts from across Europe, as well as the Christian community of Ethiopia. Offering new photography and complementary text, this book will be an essential resource for one of the world's most important private collections of medieval art, and a fascinating read for all interested in the Middle Ages and the role of art history in exploring our world.

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Book SynopsisDuring a 19th century renovation of a confectioner's shop in the town of Colmar, France, workers chanced upon a precious hoard of medieval jewellery and coins hidden in a wall. The cache - known as the Colmar Treasure - is thought to have been concealed by a Jewish family prior to the outbreak of the Plague in 1348, when Jews across the region were tragically scapegoated and put to violent death. This exquisite volume, published to accompany an exhibition at The Met Cloisters, examines their legacy through the lens of the Colmar treasure, shedding light on what it reveals about the work, homes, worship and values of its owners. Accompanies an exhibition at The Met Cloisters from 22 July 2019 to 12 January 2020.Trade Review'In May 1863, builders carrying out works in a confectioner’s shop in Colmar broke through a wall where they discovered a hoard of medieval objects, mostly coins and jewellery... This book of essays that accompanies the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloisters branch in New York (until 12 January 2020) explores the historical context of this mixed bag.'-The Art Newspaper 2019Table of ContentsDirector's Foreword Acknowledgments Finding Treasure in Colmar Finding the Lost Jews of Colmar Unlocking a Medieval Jewel Box Catalogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPublished to celebrate the opening of the Denver Art Museum’s newly renovated campus, this stunning volume highlights masterworks from the museum’s global art collection. Founded in 1893, the Denver Art Museum is now one of the largest art museums between Chicago and the West Coast. Featuring around 70,000 works, the collection represents cultures from Africa and Asia to Europe and Oceania, from the ancient past to the present day. Housed in landmark buildings by Daniel Libeskind and Gio Ponti, the museum also showcases work by regional artists, and provides invaluable ways for the community to learn about the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction Architecture and Design Asian Art European and American Art before 1900 The Mayer Center for Ancient and Latin American Art Modern and Contemporary Art Native Arts Indigenous Arts of North America African and Oceanic Art Petrie Institute of Western American Art Photography Textile Art and Fashion Publications on the Collection Contributors Index Credits

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Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus is on the widespread use of cosmograms depicted in Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful framework for cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, ceremonialism, and religion. It also provides a unified, comprehensive perspective on Mississippian symbolism. A selection of landscape cosmograms from various parts of North America and Europe taken from the ethnographic records are examined and an overview of American Indian cosmographic landscapes provided to illustrate their centrality to indigenous religious traditions across North America. Authors discuss what a cosmogram-based approach can teach us about people, places, and past environments and what it may reveal that more conventional approaches overlook. Geographical variations across the landscape, regional similarities, and derived meaning found in these data are described. The authors also consider the difficult subject of how to develop a more detailed chronology for eastern rock art.Trade ReviewOrganised into seven thought-provoking chapters, each accompanied by high-quality images, this book will be an important contribution into understanding regional rock-art trends in a continent that has a complex, dynamic and distinct range in its rock-art assemblages. * Current World Archaeology *I commend the editors for their daring vision and timely contribution to American rock art scholarship. * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *...this is a thought-provoking and informative book on the fascinating subject of rock art in the southeastern United States. * Time & Mind: the Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture. *...challenge[s] archaeologists to think beyond customarily considered relationships among people, portable objects, and architecture and to consider rock art as one of many contexts through which native peoples of eastern North America expressed their understandings of animate landscapes. * American Antiquity *Table of ContentsList of Illustration and Tables Preface Materiality and Cultural Landscapes in Native America George Sabo and Jan Simek Missouri: West Mississippi River Valley 2. The Big Five Petroglyph Sites: Their Place on the Landscape and Relation to Their Creators James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados 3. Landscape, Cosmology, and the Old Woman: A Strong Feminine Presence James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados Arkansas: Ozark Escarpment West of the Mississippi River 4. Petroglyphs, Portals, and People: Along the Eastern Ozark Escarpment, Arkansas George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, Jami J. Lockhart, and Leslie C. Walker Illinois: East Mississippi River Valley 5. Transformed Spaces: A Landscape Approach to the Rock Art of Illinois Mark J. Wagner, Kayeleigh Sharp, and Jonathan Remo Appalachian Plateau 6. Prehistoric Rock Art, Social Boundaries, and Cultural Landscapes on the Cumberland Plateau of Southeast North America Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler, and B. Bart Henson Appalachian Mountains 7. Betwixt And Between: The Occurrence of Petroglyphs Between Townhouses of the Living and Townhouses of Spirit Beings in Northern Georgia and Western North Carolina Johannes Loubser, Scott Ashcraft, James Wettstaed References Index

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Book SynopsisThe House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations ever to have been undertaken at Pompeii. The methodology employed to the systematic examination of an entire city block, involving extensive artefact and ecofact recovery, using the latest scientific methods, has generated one of the single largest bodies of archaeological data ever produced on the development of ancient Pompeii, from the earliest traces of human habitation until its destruction. The first major section of this data is now made available in form of a study of the most famous and prominent of the houses on the block. The Casa del Chirurgo (House of the Surgeon) has been one of the most frequently cited houses in the ancient city since its discovery in 1771. The results of the exhaustive study of the house within its urban context not only challenge many of the conclusions of previous research, but also make it possible at last for this important property to contribute information to the full history of Pompeii’s urban development, illuminating the chronology of urban change, the processes involved in ancient domestic construction, aspects of the ancient environment, and changing socio-political and economic conditions within Italy throughout the middle to late Republic and early Empire.Trade Review…this is an excellent report, containing a wealth of new data expertly martialled, described and illustrated. * Antiquity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Foreword: The Old Certainties are Crumbling Rick Jones 1. Pompeii’s Insula VI 1 and the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 2. The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii Damian Robinson, Michael A. Anderson, H.E.M. Cool, Robyn Veal, and Charlene Murphy 3. Digging the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 4. The Stratigraphic and Structural Sequence of the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 5. Room by Room Discussion of Stratigraphy and Architecture Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 6. Glass Vessels and Small Finds H. E. M. Cool 7. Report on the Coinage Recovered from the AAPP Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo Richard Hobbs 8. Plaster Fragments from the Cisterns of the Casa del Chirurgo: a window onto the house’s lost decoration Helen White 9. Pavements of Mortar, Mosaic and Marble Inlay Will Wootton 10. The Faunal Remains Jane Richardson 11. Archaeobotanical Remains Charlene Murphy 12. Fuel and Timber in the Casa del Chirurgo Robyn Veal 13. The Ancient Campanian Environment and Results from the Casa del Chirurgo Robyn Veal and Charlene Murphy 14 Conclusions Michael A. Anderson Appendix I: Stratigraphic Unit Listing and Chapter 5 Concordance Appendix II: Harris Matrices for Areas Excavated Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn irresistible collection of artwork and 140 peelable stickers from iconic brands including Chocolate, Almost and HUF, this is a must-have for skate fans.Skateboarding is currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity, and stickers remain at the heart of its vibrant - and often anarchic - culture. Now an Olympic sport, skateboarding will reach a whole new demographic and as Packard Fancher wonders in his foreword:"Will that change it? It's an exciting, if slightly concerning thought - traditionally we haven't liked outsiders meddling in our affairs. But rest assured: skateboarding, like graffiti and street art, will always attract outsiders, the independent kids who are drawn to the counterculture. These kids will still become obsessed with this useless wooden toy, whether it's cool or not. They'll love the graphics, the style, the vibe, the heroes, and the villains, and they'll continue to skate until their bodies can't take it anymore. They'll develop a network of friends that will last a lifetime, and they'll discover a ton about themselves, while shaping their own identity in the world. It'll be the same as it ever was!"Featuring interviews, photographs and both new and highly collectable classic stickers, this timely collection is perfect for skateboard fans of all ages.

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Book Synopsis'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' Yayoi KusamaNonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultural scene. In the early 1970s, she returned to Japan and by 1977 had checked herself in to a psychiatric hospital which has remained her home to this day. But, though she was removed from the world, she was definitely not in retirement. Her love and belief in the polka dot has given birth to some of the most surprising and inspiring installations and paintings of the last four decades - and made her exhibitions the most visited of any single living artist.

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Book SynopsisJohn Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers; as a TV presenter he changed the way we looked at art in Ways of Seeing; as a storyteller and political activist he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants and the oppressed around the world. In 1953 he wrote: "Far from dragging politics into art, art has dragged me into politics." He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January, 2017. In A Writer of Our Time, Joshua Sperling places Berger's life and works within the historical narrative of postwar Britain and beyond. The book also explores, through the work, the larger questions that vexed a generation: the purpose of art, the nature of creative freedom, the meaning of commitment. Drawing on extensive interviews, close readings and a wealth of archival sources only recently made available, the book brings the many different faces of John Berger together and shows him as one of the most vital, and brilliant, thinkers and storytellers of our time.Trade ReviewA welcome intervention that does justice to the legacy of Berger's thought and work which has been criminally underappreciated in Britain. * Morning Star *Berger's talent for 'seeing all sides' of a thing, his incredible floating perspective, would have been worth less had he not used it to choose the right side. -- Sarah Nicole Prickett * Bookforum *

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Book SynopsisPost-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. It was alsoseemsthe forcing ground of the 'post truth', by means of which western values got turned upside down. But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes, amongst others: David Bowie * the Ipod * Frederic Jameson * the demolition of Pruit-Igoe * Madonna * Post-Fordism * Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit' * Deleuze and Guattari * the Nixon Shock * The Bowery series * Judith Butler * Las Vegas * Margaret Thatcher * Grand Master Flash * I Love Dick * the RAND Corporation * the Sex Pistols *Princess Diana * the Musee D'Orsay * Grand Theft Auto* Perry Anderson * Netflix * 9/11We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?Trade ReviewMarvellously entertaining, exciting and informative. -- John Banville * Guardian Books of the Year [For Grand Hotel Abyss] *This seemingly daunting book turned out to be an exhilarating page-turner.Grand Hotel Abyss is an outstanding critical introduction to some of the most fertile, and still relevant, thinkers of the 20th century. -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post [For Grand Hotel Abyss] *Attempts something rather daring . An easily accessible, funny history of one of the more formidable intellectual movements of the 20th century . an easy, witty, pacy read -- Owen Hatherley * [for Grand Hotel Abyss] *Throughout the book, Jeffries demonstrates that he is comfortable and conversant with the often thorny philosophical ideas of his subjects. A rich, intellectually meaty history. * Kirkus [for Grand Hotel Abyss] *Stuart Jeffries has produced a compelling and politically pressing group portrait of the philosophers associated with the Frankfurt School. Their thinking has never seemed less forbidding and more inspiring -- Matthew Beaumont * [for Grand Hotel Abyss] *An engaging and accessible history of the lives and main ideas of the leading thinkers of the Frankfurt School * New York Review of Books [for Grand Hotel Abyss] *Erudite and entertaining ... Everything, All the Time, Everywhere is a detailed and convincing horror story of the amalgamation of the two most dominant intellectual paradigms of the past half century. -- Ryne Clos * Spectrum Culture *Jeffries is a rarity: a journalist with a serious interest in cultural theory ... who writes about it in a way that is both scholarly and welcoming to non-theorists ... entertaining and astute -- Joe Moran * Times Literary Supplement *In holding a mirror to a familiar world, Everything looks to reveal hidden complexities ... eminently readable, without eliding the difficulties that are so key to its intrigue -- Daniel Baksi * The Arts Desk *Splendidly readable ... Jeffries packs a remarkable knowledge of postmodern culture into these pages -- Terry Eagleton * Guardian *Intriguing -- William Davies * New Statesman *Everything, All the Time, Everywhere finds Stuart Jeffries examining simply and engagingly how a loss of values and critical thought has led to our 'post-truth', irrational world. * Choice Magazine *A lively, sparky book -- Michael Rosen * BBC Front Row *Not only instructive; [Everything, All the Time, Everywhere] is a pleasurable read ... brilliant and entertaining -- Lisa Downing * Financial Times *Engaging and richly detailed -- Christopher McMichael * New Frame *Astute -- D.L. Dusenbury * Spectator *Everything, All the Time, Everywhere is a book replete with philosophical, social, and political references and its range of material is truly impressive. -- Sean Sheehan * popmatters *Pertinent ... on class, and capital, [Jeffries] is good. -- Scotsman * Stuart Kelly *Stuart Jeffries' animated and witty approach in Everything, All the Time, Everywhere is an exhilarating and even intoxicating look at the shambles the relationship between postmodernism and neoliberal capitalism has created. -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *

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Book SynopsisThis second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covered in the preceding volume), and of those found in Crete. The significance of these finds is that these are the principal testimonies of the influence of the Early Bronze Age Cycladic cultures in the wider Aegean. This influence is shown both by the export of sculptures produced in the Cyclades (and made of Cycladic marble), and of their imitations, produced elsewhere in the Aegean, usually of local marble. They hold the key, therefore, to the cultural interactions developing at this time, the so-called ‘international spirit’ manifest particularly during the Aegean Early Bronze II period.This was the time when the foundations of early Aegean civilisation were being laid, and the material documented is thus of considerable significance. The volume is divided into sections wherein contributions examine finds and their archaeological, social, and economic contexts from specific regions. It concludes with an overview of the significance and role of these objects in Early Bronze Age societies of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region. This will be the first time that this material has been systematically gathered together. Highly illustrated, it follows and builds on the successful preceding volume, Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context (Oxbow 2016).Trade ReviewAll papers are well illustrated, and the commendable practice of showing all figurine illustrations at a common scale of 1:2 is continued from the previous volumes […] Ultimately, the material presented in this volume adds interestingly to the corpus of soundly documented items [...] * Journal of Greek Archaeology *Altogether the three conference volumes on early Cycladic sculpture 'in context' are of inestimable value […] For anyone interested in early Cycladic or Cycladic idol sculpture, the book is therefore indispensable. * Gnomon *Table of ContentsList of contributors Abbreviations List of figures List of tables Preface 1 Introduction Colin Renfrew Before the Bronze Age 2 Past in the past: examples of Neolithic figurines from mainland Greece and Early Cycladic anthropomorphic imagery Fanis Mavridis Attica 3 An Early Cycladic figurine from the Acropolis of Athens Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki Appendix: optical examination of a Cycladic-type marble figurine from the Acropolis and vessels from Makronisos in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens Dimitris Tambakopoulos & Yannis Maniatis 4 Aghios Kosmas revisited: the Cycladic figurines from the Early Helladic site at Aghios Kosmas in Attica Katerina Kostanti & Alexandra Christopoulou 5 Two Cycladic figurines from subterranean Chamber III, in the Early Helladic settlement at Koropi, eastern Attica Olga Kakavogianni 6 Cycladic figurines from Tsepi, Marathon Maria Pantelidou Gofa 7 Fragment of an Early Cycladic folded-arm figurine from the acropolis of Brauron Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos 8 An Early Helladic figurine from Loutsa, Attica Maria Stathi 9 A schematic figurine from the area of Kephissos in Aegaleo, Αthens Eleni Asimakou 10 A figurine from a tomb at Mandra in western Attica Kalliopi Papangeli 11 A fragmentary Cycladic figurine from Nea Kephisia, Attica Theodora Georgousopoulou 12 Cycladic-type figurines from the Early Helladic cemetery of Asteria at Glyfada, Attica Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou Appendix: the bioarchaeological context of the Asteria figurines Eleanna Prevedorou Peloponnese 13 Early Cycladic sculpture from Delpriza in the southern Argolid Angeliki Kossyva 14 Cycladic figurine from the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas in Epidauria Vassilis Lambrinoudakis 15 A Cycladic figurine from Upper Epidaurus Christos Piteros 16 An Early Cycladic figurine from a Late Protogeometric burial context in Argos Evangelia Pappi North Aegean, Boeotia, Euboea, Phthiotis and Skyros 17 Early Bronze Age schematic figurines from Thermi on Lesbos Olga Philaniotou 18 A comment on a Cycladic figurine in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes Eleni Andrikou 19 Cycladic figurines from Euboea Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki 20 Manika revisited: a recontextualisation of Euboean Cycladica in the light of new research Adamantios Sampson & Athena Hadji 21 Cycladic marble figurines from the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Nea Styra, Euboea Maria Kosma 22 Cycladica from the settlement at Palamari on Skyros Liana Parlama 23 Conspicuous consumption in the settlement context of Early Bronze Age Proskynas in East Lokris, central Greece Eleni Zahou Dodecanese and Asia Minor littoral 24 Early Cycladic figurines from Vathy, Astypalaia Andreas Vlachopoulos & Anastasia Angelopoulou 25 Early Cycladic II and Early Bronze II finds from the Dodecanese: the case of the island of Kos Toula Marketou 26 Αn Early Cycladic anthropomorphic figurine from the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes Athena Hadji 27 Local and imported in action: western Anatolian and Cycladic figurines at Early Bronze Age Miletus Ourania Kouka 28 3rd-millennium BC anthropomorphic figurines of western Anatolia, a comparative view. Towards a better understanding of the origins and meanings of Cycladic figurines Rıza Tuncel & Vasıf Şahoğlu New discoveries in the Cyclades 29 Sculptures from the Papaoikonomou property on Ano Kouphonisi Irini Legaki, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Eugenia Orfanidou Early Cycladic Sculpture in Perspective 30 Early Cycladic sculpture beyond the Cyclades: the Aegean context Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Marisa Marthari Index

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Book SynopsisThe present volume shows the archaeological thinking as a form of art, revealing the poetics of the archaeological imagination. It shows that, in their work, archaeologists, without being inspired by contemporary artists, use creative methods, and their analysis of the art of the Past goes beyond the material culture of the art objects, into the realm of the mental processes of creation. Consequently, the purpose of this book is to present the archaeological research functioning as a sort of artistic creation, proposing new perspectives on the archaeological imagination. It offers an exploration of the creative processes, the possibility of finding inspiration in experientiality, and the approach to the act of creation as a subject for archaeological research. When analysing the art of the Past, or when using art methods to approach the Past, we are facing an act of creation where imagination, emotion, and creativity combine under the form of an experiential instrument of investigation. The book offers a vision of archaeological research, a means to understand the complexity of the human nature, and consequently, to approach the human thinking structured on similarity and symbolism, being able to detect cultural and psychological subjects ignored until today, and, at the same time, to offer a series of visions of art, seen from the perspective of archaeology.Table of ContentsContributors Introduction Dragoş Gheorghiu 1. Reveries and representations of the magic of being Roberta Robin Dods 2. Catching the ephemeral – aesthetics of artful artefacts. A Middle Stone Age Still Bay bifacial pointed stone tool from Blombos Cave, South Africa and a Migration Period brooch from Kvåle in Sogn, Norway Torill Christine Lindstrøm 3. The importance of the anthropological approach in archaeology: The example of prehistoric acoustic studies Iegor Reznikoff 4. Replicating the prehistoric artisan’s mindset Jacqui Wood 5. Pathways Timothy Darvill and Elizabeth Poraj-Wilczynska 6. Art in the corporal memory and in the mental imagery Dragoş Gheorghiu 7. Modernity and landscape through art: Deconstructing the mindset of British contemporary artist James Lawrence Isherwood George Nash 8. The demography of prehistoric artists Ezra Zubrow

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Book SynopsisEngraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus deals with small, but highly captivating and stimulating artwork – engraved gemstones. Although in antiquity intaglios and cameos had multiple applications (seals, jewellery or amulets), the images engraved upon them are snapshots of people's beliefs, ideologies, and everyday occupations. They cast light on the self-advertising and propaganda actions performed by Roman political leaders, especially Octavian/Augustus, their factions and other people engaged in the politics and social life of the past. Gems can show both general trends (the specific showpieces like State Cameos) as well as the individual and private acts of being involved in politics and social affairs, mainly through a subtle display of political allegiances, since they were objects of strictly personal use. They enable us to analyse and learn about Roman propaganda and various social behaviours from a completely different angle than coins, sculpture or literature. The miniaturism of ancient gems is in inverse proportion to their cultural significance. This book presents an evolutionary model of the use of engraved gems from self-presentation (3rd-2nd century BC) to personal branding and propaganda purposes in the Roman Republic and under Augustus (until 14 AD). The specific characteristics of engraved gems, their strictly private character and the whole array of devices appearing on them are examined in respect to their potential propagandistic value and usefulness in social life. The wide scope of this analysis provides a comprehensive picture covering many aspects of Roman propaganda and a critical survey of the overinterpretations of this term in regard to the glyptic art. The aim is the incorporation of this class of archaeological artefacts into the well-established studies of Roman propaganda, as well as the Roman society in general, brought about by discussion of the interconnections with ancient literary sources as well as other categories of Roman art and craftsmanship, notably coins but also sculpture and relief.Trade Review'... this volume—splendidly produced at an extraordinarily low price for what it contains (and actually free to download in PDF format)—is a book of enduring worth. Gołyźniak deserves our gratitude for writing one of the best books on Roman gems to have been published for a very long time.' - Dr Martin Henig (2020): The Journal of Gemmology'The catalog (331-445) is the result of a collector's tour de force. All of the approximately 2,900 objects are listed with basic information and, to a significant extent, also illustrated. It is this enormous collection of material that gives the impression that all the objects assembled should be given equal consideration. As a result, motives that can be associated with the aspect of propaganda stand alongside those for which such a connection remains questionable. As a result, the present volume is a comprehensive compendium on a range of motifs within Glyptic, which previous research has linked to political topics of the late Republic and early Imperial period. The challenge of analyzing the complex problem area of propagating political issues within the framework of a narrow personal world of images will have to be faced again on the basis of this volume.' - Jörn Lang (2022): Redaktion sehepunkte'All in all, Paweł Gołyźniak has presented a very stimulating and largely very convincing study on the political use of gems in Rome, which makes the material easily accessible, especially for historians, and will represent the starting point for further work.' – Klaus Scherberich (2021): Bonner Jahrbücher 221 Table of ContentsForeword and acknowledgments ; Part I Introduction ; 1. Preface ; 2. State of research ; 3. Aims, methodology and structure ; Part II Theory ; 4. Self-presentation and propaganda – definitions and characteristics ; 4.1. Definitions of ‘self-presentation’ and ‘propaganda’ ; 4.2. Propaganda and persuasion ; 4.3. Propaganda and public opinion ; 4.4. Propaganda as a form of communication ; 4.5. Forms of propaganda ; 4.6. Tools and techniques of propaganda ; 4.7. The effectiveness of propaganda ; 5. Roman propaganda on engraved gems – general introduction ; 5.1. Anticipated areas of propaganda on engraved gems ; 5.2. Problems with studying propaganda in ancient times with emphasis on engraved gems ; Part III Evidence ; 6. Beginnings (3rd-2nd centuries BC) ; 6.1. Etruscan and Italic tradition (self-presentation) ; 6.2. Hellenistic influences ; 6.3. Roman tradition (family symbols, personal branding, commemoration, state propaganda) ; 7. Early 1st century BC ; 7.1. Lucius Cornelius Sulla ; 7.2. Gaius Marius ; 7.3. Lucius Licinius Lucullus ; 7.4. Other politicians ; 8. Civil War: Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar and contemporaries ; 8.1. Pompey the Great ; 8.2. Julius Caesar ; 8.3. Less significant politicians and women from the times of the Civil War ; 9. Post-Caesarian and Liberators’ Civil Wars (from death of Caesar to Octavian’s sole rule: 44-27 BC) ; 9.1. The Pompeians ; 9.2. The Republicans ; 9.3. The Caesarians ; 9.4. Less significant politicians ; 9.5. Women and their propaganda significance on engraved gems ; 10. Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) ; 10.1. Collecting ; 10.2. Gem engravers working for Augustus ; 10.3. The final seal of Augustus ; 10.4. Portraits – personal branding induction and manifestation of loyalty ; 10.5. Commemoration and State Cameos ; 10.6. Divine and mythological references ; 10.7. Mythological Foundations of the New Rome ; 10.8. Promotion of peace and prosperity ; 10.9. Luxury objects (State Cameos, cameo vessels etc.) and religious propaganda ; 10.10. Promotion of family and successors ; 10.11. Divus Augustus ; Part IV Summary and conclusions ; 11. Provenance, provenience, production and distribution of propaganda gems ; 12. Statistics ; 13. Summary and conclusions: ; 13.1. Use of gems in triumphs ; 13.2. Collecting ; 13.3. Employment of gem engravers ; 13.4. Seals ; 13.5. Personal branding and self-promotion ; 13.6. Induction and manifestation of loyalty and support ; 13.7. Use of heritage ; 13.8. Promotion of family and oneself through origo ; 13.9. Promotion of faction ; 13.10. Commemoration ; 13.11. Religious, divine and mythological references ; 13.12. Political symbols and promotion of abstract ideas (ordo rerum, Pax Augusta and aurea aetas) ; 13.13. Luxury objects: State Cameos – carved vessels – works in the round ; 13.14. Final remarks ; Part V Catalogue, figures, bibliography and indices ; Catalogue ; Figures ; Figure credits ; Bibliography ; Index

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