Images in the making : art, process, archaeology / edited by Ing-Marie Back Danielsson and Andrew Meirion Jones

Introduction / Ing-Marie Back Danielsson and Andrew Meirion Jones 1 -- The Nile in the hippopotamus : being and becoming in faience figurines of Middle Kingdom ancient Egypt / Rune Nyord -- An archaeology of anthropomorphism : upping the ontological ante of Alfred Gell's anthropology of art through a focus on making / Benjamin Alberti -- Dirty RTI / Ian Dawson -- Rock art as process : Iberian Late Bronze Age 'warrior' stelae in-the-making / Marta Díaz-Guardamino -- Images and forms before Plato : the carved stone balls of Northeast Scotland / Andrew Meirion Jones -- Connectivity and the making of Atlantic Rock Art / Joana Valdez-Tullett -- Neolithic and Copper Age stamps in the Balkans : a material and processual account of image making / Agni Prijatelj -- Pattern as patina : Iron Age 'kintsugi' from East Yorkshire / Helen Chittock -- The act of creation : tangible engagements in the making and 'remaking' of prehistoric rock art / Lara Bacelar Alves -- 'Guldgubbars' changing ontology : Scandinavian Late Iron Age gold foil figures through the lens of intra-action / Ing-Marie Back Danielsson -- The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock art / Fredrik Fahlander -- Parts and holes : a commentary / Louisa Minkin.

This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeological image analysis, it argues for the importance of ontology, redefining images as material processes or events that draw together differing aspects of the world. The book is divided into three sections: 'Emergent images', which focuses on practices of making; 'Images as process', which examines the making and role of images in prehistoric societies; and 'Unfolding images', which focuses on how images change as they are made and circulated. Featuring contributions from archaeologists, Egyptologists, anthropologists and artists, it highlights the multiple role of images in prehistoric and historic societies, while demonstrating that scholars need to recognise their dynamic and changeable character.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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