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Auteur(s) : Bajema, Marcus Jan (1979-....)
Titre(s) : Bodies of maize, eaters of grain [Texte imprimé] : comparing material worlds, metaphor and the agency of art in the Preclassic Maya and Mycenaean early civilisations / Marcus Jan Bajema
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Archaeopress, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-351 p.) : ill., cartes ; 30 cm
Collection : Archaeopress archaeology
Lien à la collection : Archaeopress archaeology
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 302-347. Notes bibliogr. Index
Bodies of Maize, Eaters of Grain provides a comparative study of the earliest urban
civilisations of the Maya lowlands and the Greek mainland. It builds upon earlier
comparative studies by Gordon Childe, Robert Adams and Bruce Trigger, extending their
work into new directions. Specifically, the focus lies on the art styles of the Late
Preclassic lowland Maya and Mycenaean Greece. The approach used here seeks to combine
more traditional iconographic approaches with more recent models on metaphor and the
social agency of things. Comparing Maya and Mycenaean art styles through the three
aspects of metaphor, semiotics and praxis, their differences and similarities are
made clear. The book shows art to have played a more active role in the development
of the earliest urban civilisations, rather than passively reflecting economic and
political trends. In that way, the social role of art provides a key to understanding
the relations between the different factors in the development of the two societies,
as they played out at different temporal and geographical scales. To understand this,
the notion of distinct Maya and Mycenaean 'material worlds,' involving both materials
and ideas, is proposed, with consequences for models about the earliest urban civilisations
in general"--Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Art maya
Art mycénien
Genre ou forme : Études comparatives
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781784916916 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454408911
Notice n° :
FRBNF45440891
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