The art of assemblage: styling Neolithic art
The art of assemblage: styling Neolithic art
The art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland consists of a variety of curvilinear and geometric motifs pecked into stone (in open-air rock art or passage tombs) or carved into portable artefacts of chalk, stone or antler. Because of its abstract nature the art has proved problematic for archaeologists. Initially archaeologists assumed the art was representational; now most scholars have abandoned this view, and simply approach the art stylistically. Here I argue that stylistic analysis is insufficient to understand this art: instead the process of making provides a fuller understanding of this art. It is argued that the practice of assemblage is a key aspect of the process of making.
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Jones, Andrew Merion
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February 2017
Jones, Andrew Merion
3e8becff-0d46-42eb-85db-2dd4f07e92a3
Jones, Andrew Merion
(2017)
The art of assemblage: styling Neolithic art.
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27 (1), .
(doi:10.1017/S0959774316000561).
Abstract
The art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland consists of a variety of curvilinear and geometric motifs pecked into stone (in open-air rock art or passage tombs) or carved into portable artefacts of chalk, stone or antler. Because of its abstract nature the art has proved problematic for archaeologists. Initially archaeologists assumed the art was representational; now most scholars have abandoned this view, and simply approach the art stylistically. Here I argue that stylistic analysis is insufficient to understand this art: instead the process of making provides a fuller understanding of this art. It is argued that the practice of assemblage is a key aspect of the process of making.
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Accepted/In Press date: 15 October 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 January 2017
Published date: February 2017
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