The Tiny and the Fragmented

Miniature, Broken, or Otherwise Incomplete Objects in the Ancient World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Langin-Hooper Martin, LANGIN-HOOPER MARTIN, S. Rebecca Martin, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper, Boston University) Martin, S. Rebecca (Associate Professor of Greek Art and Architecture in the Department of History & Architecture and Associate Professor in the Archaeology Program, Associate Professor of Greek Art and Architecture in the Department of History & Architecture and Associate Professor in the Archaeology Program, Southern Methodist University) Langin-Hooper, Stephanie M. (Assistant Professor and Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture, Assistant Professor and Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-01-03
Mått157 x 236 x 17 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190614812

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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.

Contributors to the VolumeChapter 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 JoyceChapter 3: Tiny and Fragmented Votive Offerings from Classical Antiquity Jessica Faye HughesChapter 4: Divinity In Part or In Full? Representations of Tanit in Texts and Art S. Rebecca MartinChapter 5: Style as a Fragment of the Ancient World Marian H. FeldmanChapter 6: Stronger at the Broken Places: Affect in Hellenistic Babylonian Miniatures with Separately-Made and Attached LimbsStephanie Langin-HooperChapter 7: Tiny Bodies for Intimate Worlds. Human Figurines in Iberian Iron Age Sanctuaries Mireia López-Bertran and Jaime Vives-FerrándizChapter 8: Incomplete: The Uneasy Powers of Holes, Cut Surfaces, and Neolithic Pit-HousesDoug BaileyChapter 9: A Response: Scaling the Walls of Persepolis toward an Imaginal Social/Material Landscape Margaret Cool RootIndex

This edited volume is a welcome and thought-provoking contribution to the literature on two important phenomena: miniaturization and fragmentation. ... This book will therefore be indispensable for anyone working on either of these themes in the future. And indeed, The Tiny and the Fragmented convincingly argues that most of us are in one way or another working on these themes (especially fragmentation), whether we realize it or not. ...The Tiny and the Fragmented is an important and timely contribution... In its interdisciplinary scope and willingness to ask new questions, the volume looks ahead to the future of multiple fields. And in its championing of forms of material culture whose historical, cultural, and theoretical importance is too often overlooked, this book reveals the power of "the tiny and the fragmented" to shape human experience.