Rethinking Celtic Art
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Rethinking Celtic Art

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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eBook - PDF

Rethinking Celtic Art

About this book

'Early Celtic art' - typified by the iconic shields, swords, torcs and chariot gear we can see in places such as the British Museum - has been studied in isolation from the rest of the evidence from the Iron Age. This book reintegrates the art with the archaeology, placing the finds in the context of our latest ideas about Iron Age and Romano-British society. The contributions move beyond the traditional concerns with artistic styles and continental links, to consider the material nature of objects, their social effects and their role in practices such as exchange and burial. The aesthetic impact of decorated metalwork, metal composition and manufacturing, dating and regional differences within Britain all receive coverage. The book gives us a new understanding of some of the most ornate and complex objects ever found in Britain, artefacts that condense and embody many histories.

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Information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9781782978237
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction: re-integrating ‘Celtic’ art
  7. Chapter 2: The space and time of Celtic Art: interrogating the ‘Technologies of Enchantment’ database
  8. Chapter 3: A Celtic mystery: some thoughts on the genesis of insular Celtic art
  9. Chapter 4: Seeing red: the aesthetics of martial objects in the British and Irish Iron Age
  10. Chapter 5: Reflections on Celtic Art: a re-examination of mirror decoration
  11. Chapter 6: What can be inferred from the regional stylistic diversity of Iron Age coinage?
  12. Chapter 7: Technologies of the body: Iron Age and Roman grooming and display
  13. Chapter 8: Celtic artin Roman Britain
  14. Chapter 9: Material, style and identity in first century AD metalwork, with particular reference to the Seven Sisters Hoard
  15. Chapter 10: On the Aesthetics of the Ancient Britons
  16. Chapter 11: Comment I. Contextualising Iron Age art
  17. Chapter 12: Comment II. The unmaking of Iron Age identities: art after the Roman conquest
  18. Colour Plates