The origins of monsters : image and cognition in the first age of mechanical reproduction /
Wengrow, D.,author.
New York University.Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
"This work is published in association with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-160) and index.
Image and economy in the ancient world : the Bronze Age of Mikhail Rostovtzeff -- Materials for an epidemiology of culture -- The hidden shaman : fictive anatomy in Paleolithic and Neolithic art -- Urban creations : the cultural ecology of composite animals -- Counterintuitive images and the mechanical arts -- Modes of image transfer : transformative, integrative, protective -- Conclusion : Persistent, but not primordial : emergent properties of cognition.
Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch, 1870-1952.
Art, Prehistoric.
Art, Ancient.
Archaeology and art.
Animals, Mythical, in art.
Monsters in art.
Cognition and culture.