Images of Mithra (Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series) [1 ed.] 2016953559, 9780198792536, 0198792530

With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear i

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English Pages 240 Year 2017

Images of Mithra (Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series) [1 ed.]
2016953559, 9780198792536, 0198792530

What is a vessel? As objects made for human interaction and handling, both containing and bounded by space, vessels can

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Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether

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Semiotic landscape -- Narrative representations: designing social action -- Conceptual representations: designing social

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This volume examines the role of gestures in past societies, exploring both how meaning was communicated through bodily

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This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they

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John Dillenberger has written the first comprehensive account of the relation between the visual arts and theological cu

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In Images of War in Contemporary Art, Uroš Cvoro and Kit Messham-Muir mount a challenge to the dominance of theoretical

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