Images in the making: Art, process, archaeology

✍ Scribed by Ing-Marie Back Danielsson; Andrew Meirion Jones (editors)

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Series: Social Archaeology and Material Worlds
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents innovative studies of material images and asks how an appreciation of the making and unfolding of images alters archaeological accounts of prehistoric and historic societies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Emergent images
The Nile in the hippopotamus: being and becoming in faience figurines of Middle Kingdom ancient Egypt
An archaeology of anthropomorphism: upping the ontological ante of Alfred Gell’s anthropology of art through a focus on making
Dirty RTI
Commentary on Part I
Part II: Images as process
Rock art as process: Iberian Late Bronze Age ‘warrior’ stelae in-the-making
Images and forms before Plato: the carved stone balls of Northeast Scotland
Connectivity and the making of Atlantic Rock Art
Neolithic and Copper Age stamps in the Balkans: a material and processual account of image making
Commentary on Part II
Part III: Unfolding images
Pattern as patina: Iron Age ‘kintsugi’ from East Yorkshire
The act of creation: tangible engagements in the making and ‘remaking’ of prehistoric rock art
‘Guldgubbars’ changing ontology: Scandinavian Late Iron Age gold foil figures through the lens of intra-action
The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock art
Parts and holes: a commentary
Index