Peter S. Wells
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691143385
- eISBN:
- 9781400844777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691143385.003.0004
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This chapter first discusses the concept of the frame and how it helps us to understand the visual patterning of space in late prehistoric Europe. Frames, whether they are wooden picture frames that ...
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This chapter first discusses the concept of the frame and how it helps us to understand the visual patterning of space in late prehistoric Europe. Frames, whether they are wooden picture frames that hold paintings on museum walls or boundary ditches around prehistoric sites, perform the important function of establishing for the viewer the boundaries of that which is to be viewed. The frame tells the viewer what is inside and therefore to be considered and what is outside and therefore can be ignored. The things that prehistoric Europeans placed within frames, their foci of attention, can be understood as diagrams. The chapter then considers some of the visual patterns that persist from the Early Bronze Age through the Late Iron Age, before turning to the character of the changes that took place in ways of seeing in later prehistoric Europe.Less
This chapter first discusses the concept of the frame and how it helps us to understand the visual patterning of space in late prehistoric Europe. Frames, whether they are wooden picture frames that hold paintings on museum walls or boundary ditches around prehistoric sites, perform the important function of establishing for the viewer the boundaries of that which is to be viewed. The frame tells the viewer what is inside and therefore to be considered and what is outside and therefore can be ignored. The things that prehistoric Europeans placed within frames, their foci of attention, can be understood as diagrams. The chapter then considers some of the visual patterns that persist from the Early Bronze Age through the Late Iron Age, before turning to the character of the changes that took place in ways of seeing in later prehistoric Europe.
Duncan Garrow and Chris Gosden
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199548064
- eISBN:
- 9780191804373
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199548064.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter summarizes the book's main arguments, which emphasize the integral role of fine metalwork in cycles of cultural transformation and in the difficult process of negotiating changing ...
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This chapter summarizes the book's main arguments, which emphasize the integral role of fine metalwork in cycles of cultural transformation and in the difficult process of negotiating changing identities from the Late Iron Age onwards. It considers the broader context in which Celtic art played a role, looking further at the links between people and things within the ontologies of the Late Iron Age and Early Romano-British periods.Less
This chapter summarizes the book's main arguments, which emphasize the integral role of fine metalwork in cycles of cultural transformation and in the difficult process of negotiating changing identities from the Late Iron Age onwards. It considers the broader context in which Celtic art played a role, looking further at the links between people and things within the ontologies of the Late Iron Age and Early Romano-British periods.
