Warning Cookies are used on this site to provide the best user experience. If you continue, we assume that you agree to receive cookies from this site. OK

Mycenaean Art: A Psychological Approach

£22.00
Author:
Georgina Muskett
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300757
Paperback:
77pp. Includes 18 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
ISBN 10:
140730075X
BAR number:
S1636
+

Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
The aim of this book is to demonstrate the value of psychology in the study of ancient art, enabling emphasis on the individual, in the sense of a human being or person in a general way, in addition to denoting a discrete human being possessing an individual identity. Not all aspects of psychology lend themselves to application to the set of data which has been preserved in the archaeological record in Late Bronze Age Greece. This book primarily explores the knowledge of visual perception acquired via psychological research, which has provided valuable information on the production of images by artists. In addition, the nature of aggression, that is, conflict between members of the same species, is discussed. The case studies focus on art from the periods described as 'Early Mycenaean' and 'Mycenaean', roughly the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC.