Doug Bailey

Breaking the Surface

An Art/Archaeology of Prehistoric Architecture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Breaking the Surface offers comprehensive discussions of the philosophy of holes and perforations, the linguistic anthropology of cut- and break-words, and the perceptual psychology of concavities. The book offers a revelatory way to handle the archaeological past and is a major step forward in the growing subdiscipline of art and archaeology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190611880
• ISBN-10: 019061188X
• Artikelnr.: 51381055

Autorenporträt

Doug Bailey is Professor of Visual Archaeology and Anthropology at San Francisco State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Preface
* Chapter 1: Cutting pit-houses: function, deposition, questions not
asked
* Chapter 2: Cutting skin: Ron Athey's Four Scenes (AD 1994)
* Chapter 3: Cutting holes: philosophy and psychology
* Inter-text A
* Chapter 4: Cutting deep: Bronze Age Wilsford (1200 cal. BC)
* Chapter 5: Cutting buildings: Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect
(AD 1975)
* Chapter 6: Cutting words: linguistic anthropology
* Inter-text B
* Chapter 7: Cutting the ground: Neolithic Etton (3800 cal. BC)
* Chapter 8: Cutting space: Lucio Fontana's tagli and buchi (AD 1950s
and 1960s)
* Chapter 9: Cutting absolute worlds: grounded frames of reference
* Inter-text C
* Appendix
* Endnotes
* Bibliography
* Index