1. Introduction 2. Miniaturism and Dimensionality 3. Hamangia 4. Anthropomorphism: Dolls, portraits and body parts 5. Cucuteni-Tripolye 6. Visual Rhetoric, Truth and the Body 7. Thessalian 8. Subverting and Manipulating Reality 9. Conclusions
Dr Douglass Bailey is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and a world authority on the prehistory of eastern Europe. He has conducted fieldwork in Romania and Bulgaria and written on a wide range of topics including art, architecture, and the politics of archaeology. His Balkan Prehistory (Routledge 2000) is the standard text on the southeast European Neolithic
‘There is certainly much of interest here, Many of the sources that
Bailey brings to bear are completely novel to existing scholarship
on prehistoric figurines, and they yield some real insights. The
book itself is engagingly written and well illustrated. Discussions
of the diverse sources make for a lively read.’ – Cambridge
Archaeological Journal'Whatever you know about prehistoric
figurines, this book will open your eyes and make you think...
Bailey halps the reader all the way, with a meticulously
constructed tect, written in an absorbing style; it combines some
closely observed descriptions of the forms of figurines with
comprehensive syntheses of their archaeological contexts, critical
reviews of previous studies and interpretations, accessible
explanations of complex ideas about human representation, and a
selection of photographs and line drawings that work actively
alongside the text... this is an outstanding book, because it poses
so many thought-provoking questions about the complex qualities of
visual representations of human bodies in the past and their
significance today.' – Antiquity'...engagingly written and well
illustrated...Bailey makes a bold effort to open up interpretation
of Neolithic figurines from southeastern Europe...provoking
thoughts far beyond any traditional archaeological bounds.' Richard
G. Lesure, University of California
‘There is certainly much of interest here, Many of the sources that
Bailey brings to bear are completely novel to existing scholarship
on prehistoric figurines, and they yield some real insights. The
book itself is engagingly written and well illustrated. Discussions
of the diverse sources make for a lively read.’ – Cambridge
Archaeological Journal'Whatever you know about prehistoric
figurines, this book will open your eyes and make you think...
Bailey halps the reader all the way, with a meticulously
constructed tect, written in an absorbing style; it combines some
closely observed descriptions of the forms of figurines with
comprehensive syntheses of their archaeological contexts, critical
reviews of previous studies and interpretations, accessible
explanations of complex ideas about human representation, and a
selection of photographs and line drawings that work actively
alongside the text... this is an outstanding book, because it poses
so many thought-provoking questions about the complex qualities of
visual representations of human bodies in the past and their
significance today. – Antiquity'...engagingly written and well
illustrated...Bailey makes a bold effort to open up interpretation
of Neolithic figurines from southeastern Europe...provoking
thoughts far beyond any traditional archaeological bounds.' –
Richard G. Lesure, University of California
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