The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

David Wengrow

The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
6 July 2020
Pages
184
ISBN
9780691202396

The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

David Wengrow

It has often been claimed that monsters –supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species–play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it wa

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