The Tiny and the Fragmented (eBook, ePUB)

Miniature, Broken, or Otherwise Incomplete Objects in the Ancient World
Redaktion: Martin, S. Rebecca; Langin-Hooper, Stephanie M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Miniature and fragmentary objects are both eye-catching and yet easily dismissed. Tiny scale entices users with visions of Lilliputian worlds. The ambiguity of fragments intrigues us, offering tactile reminders of reality's transience. Yet, the standard scholarly approach to such objects has been to see them as secondary, incomplete things, whose principal purpose was to refer to a complete and often life-size whole. The Tiny and the Fragmented offers a series of fresh perspectives on the familiar concepts of the tiny and the fragmented. Written by a prestigious group of internationally-acclaimed scholars, the volume presents a remarkable diversity of case studies that range from Neolithic Europe to pre-Colombian Honduras to the classical Mediterranean and ancient Near East. Each scholar takes a different approach to issues of miniaturization and fragmentation but is united in considering the little and broken things of the past as objects in their own right. Whether a life-size or whole thing is made in a scaled-down form, deliberately broken as part of its use, or only considered successful in the eyes of ancient users if it shows some signs of wear, it challenges our expectations of representation and wholeness, of what it means for a work of art to be "finished" and "affective." Overall, The Tiny and the Fragmented demands a reconsideration of the social and contextual nature of miniaturization, fragmentation, and incompleteness, making the case that it was because of, rather than in spite of, their small or partial state that these objects were valued parts of the personal and social worlds they inhabited.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190910822
• Artikelnr.: 54602467

Autorenporträt

S. Rebecca Martin is Associate Professor of Greek Art and Architecture in the Department of History & Architecture and Associate Professor in the Archaeology Program at Boston University. She is the author of The Art of Contact Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art (2017). Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper is Assistant Professor and Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture Department of Art History at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on issues of miniaturization, identity, and cross-cultural interaction in the terracotta figurines of Hellenistic Babylonia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors to the Volume
* Chapter 1: In/Complete: An Introduction to the Theories of
Miniaturization and Fragmentation
* S. Rebecca Martin and Stephanie Langin-Hooper
* Chapter 2: Breaking Bodies and Biographies: Figurines of the Playa de
los Muertos Tradition
* Rosemary Joyce
* Chapter 3: Tiny and Fragmented Votive Offerings from Classical
Antiquity
* Jessica Faye Hughes
* Chapter 4: Divinity In Part or In Full? Representations of Tanit in
Texts and Art
* S. Rebecca Martin
* Chapter 5: Style as a Fragment of the Ancient World
* Marian H. Feldman
* Chapter 6: Stronger at the Broken Places: Affect in Hellenistic
Babylonian Miniatures with Separately-Made and Attached Limbs
* Stephanie Langin-Hooper
* Chapter 7: Tiny Bodies for Intimate Worlds. Human Figurines in
Iberian Iron Age Sanctuaries
* Mireia López-Bertran and Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz
* Chapter 8: Incomplete: The Uneasy Powers of Holes, Cut Surfaces, and
Neolithic Pit-Houses
* Doug Bailey
* Chapter 9: A Response: Scaling the Walls of Persepolis toward an
Imaginal Social/Material Landscape
* Margaret Cool Root
* Index