TY  - GEN
T1  - The Origins of Monsters : Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
T2  - Rostovtzeff lectures.
A1  - Wengrow, D.
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn862048740
AB  - It has often been claimed that ""monsters""--Supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it was with the rise of cities, elites, and cosmopolitan trade networks that ""monsters"" became widespread features of visual production in the ancient world. Showing how these fantastic images originated and how they were transmitted, David
OP  - 181
CN  - N5310 .W46 2013eb
SN  - 9781400848867
SN  - 1400848865
SN  - 9780691159041
SN  - 0691159041
KW  - Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch, : 1870-1952.
KW  - Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch, : 1870-1952
KW  - Art, Prehistoric.
KW  - Art, Ancient.
KW  - Archaeology and art.
KW  - Animals, Mythical, in art.
KW  - Cognition and culture.
KW  - Art préhistorique.
KW  - Art antique.
KW  - Archéologie et art.
KW  - Animaux fabuleux dans l'art.
KW  - Cognition et culture.
KW  - ART : Subjects & Themes : General.
KW  - RELIGION : General.
KW  - Animals, Mythical, in art
KW  - Archaeology and art
KW  - Art, Ancient
KW  - Art, Prehistoric
KW  - Cognition and culture
ER  -