Picturing the Bronze Age
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Picturing the Bronze Age

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Picturing the Bronze Age

About this book

Pictures from the Bronze Age are numerous, vivid and complex. There is no other prehistoric period that has produced such a wide range of images spanning from rock art to figurines to decoration on bronzes and gold. Fourteen papers, with a geographical coverage from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, examine a wide range of topics reflecting the many forms and expressions of Bronze Age imagery encompassing important themes including religion, materiality, mobility, interaction, power and gender. Contributors explore specific elements of rock art in some detail such as the representation of the human form; images of manslaughter; and gender identities. The relationship between rock art imagery and its location on the one hand, and metalwork and networks of trade and exchange of both materials and ideas on the other, are considered. Modern and ancient perceptions of rock art are discussed, in particular the changing perceptions that have developed during almost 150 years of documented research. Picturing the Bronze Age is based on an international workshop with the same title held in Tanum, Sweden in October 2012.

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Yes, you can access Picturing the Bronze Age by Johan Ling, Peter Skoglund, Ulf Bertilsson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & Art Techniques. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781782978824
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art Techniques

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Chapter 1: The Swedish Rock Art Research Archives and Picturing the Bronze Age – an introduction
  7. Chapter 2: From folk oddities and remarkable relics to scientific substratum: 135 years of changing perceptions on the rock carvings in Tanum, northern Bohuslän, Sweden
  8. Chapter 3: Hyper-masculinity and the construction of gender identities in the Bronze Age rock carvings of southern Sweden
  9. Chapter 4: Mixed media, mixed messages: religious transmission in Bronze Age Scandinavia
  10. Chapter 5: Walking on the stones of years. Some remarks on the north-west Iberian rock art
  11. Chapter 6: A rock with a view: new perspectives on Danish rock art
  12. Chapter 7: Rock art and the alchemy of bronze. Metal and images in Early Bronze Age Scotland
  13. Chapter 8: The ‘Stranger King’ (bull) and rock art
  14. Chapter 9: Trading images: exchange, transformation and identity in rock art from Valcamonica between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age
  15. Chapter 10: Carl Georg Brunius: An early nineteenth-century pioneer in Swedish petroglyph research
  16. Chapter 11: Alpine and Scandinavian rock art in the Bronze Age: a common cultural matrix in a web of continental influences
  17. Chapter 12: The maritime factor in the distribution of Bronze Age rock art in Galicia
  18. Chapter 13: Rock art as history – representations of human images from an historical perspective
  19. Chapter 14: Sword-wielders and manslaughter. Recently discovered images on the rock carvings of Brastad, western Sweden