The Origins of Monsters : Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
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 intrigu...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2013.
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| 丛编: | Rostovtzeff lectures.
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hhpbb |
书本目录:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Image and Economy in the Ancient World: The Bronze Age of Mikhail Rostovtzeff; 2 Materials for an Epidemiology of Culture; 3 The Hidden Shaman: Fictive Anatomy in Paleolithic and Neolithic Art; 4 Urban Creations: The Cultural Ecology of Composite Animals; 5 Counterintuitive Images and the Mechanical Arts; 6 Modes of Image Transfer: Transformative, Integrative, Protective; CONCLUSION: Persistent, but Not Primordial: Emergent Properties of Cognition; Notes; References; Index.