The Tiny and the Fragmented: Miniature, Broken, or Otherwise Incomplete Objects in the Ancient World

ISBN-13: 9780190614812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str.

S. Rebecca Martin; Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper

Opis

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.

Recenzje

The Tiny and the Fragmented presents the best of new directions in interdisciplinarity in ancient studies - bringing anthropology and art history, classics and archaeology in conversation around important theoretical questions of scale, miniaturization and the unfinished, and considering how these questions can contribute to a better understanding of the archaeological record.

O autorze

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.