E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 184 Seiten, EPUB
Reihe: The Rostovtzeff Lectures
Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction
E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 184 Seiten, EPUB
Reihe: The Rostovtzeff Lectures
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4886-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Wengrow asks: Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced by institutions and technologies? Wengrow considers the work of art in the first age of mechanical reproduction, which he locates in the Middle East, where urban life began. Comparing the development and spread of fantastic imagery across a range of prehistoric and ancient societies, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and China, he explores how the visual imagination has been shaped by a complex mixture of historical and universal factors.
Examining the reasons behind the dissemination of monstrous imagery in ancient states and empires, The Origins of Monsters sheds light on the relationship between culture and cognition.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Prähistorische Epoche
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
1 Image and Economy in the Ancient World: The Bronze Age of Mikhail Rostovtzeff 8
2 Materials for an Epidemiology of Culture 19
3 The Hidden Shaman: Fictive Anatomy in Paleolithic and Neolithic Art 33
4 Urban Creations: The Cultural Ecology of Composite Animals 50
5 Counterintuitive Images and the Mechanical Arts 74
6 Modes of Image Transfer: Transformative, Integrative, Protective 88
CONCLUSION Persistent, but Not Primordial: Emergent Properties of Cognition 108
Notes 113
References 133
Index 161