Breaking the surface : an art/archaeology of prehistoric architecture

Breaking the surface : an art/archaeology of prehistoric architecture / Doug Bailey.

"Breaking the Surface will be a disruption to traditional archaeological approaches to the prehistoric past. Having performed fieldwork on the early Neolithic pit-houses of southeastern Europe for over 20 years, the author aims to confront a major development in human history--digging, or the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, Douglass W. (Douglass Whitfield), 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Dwellings, Prehistoric > Europe.
Architecture, Prehistoric > Europe.
Art, Prehistoric > Europe.
Neolithic period > Europe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
ART > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Neolithic period
Dwellings, Prehistoric
Art, Prehistoric
Architecture, Prehistoric
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Cutting pit-houses: function, deposition, questions not asked
  • Chapter 2. Cutting skin: Ron Athey's 4 Scenes (A.D. 1994)
  • Chapter 3. Cutting holes: philosophy and psychology
  • Inter-text
  • Chapter 4. Cutting deep: Bronze Age (1490-1290 cal. B.C.)
  • Chapter 5. Cutting buildings: Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect (A.D. 1975)
  • Chapter 6. Cutting words: linguistic anthropology
  • Inter-text
  • Chapter 7. Cutting the ground: Neolithic Etton (3800 cal. B.C.)
  • Chapter 8. Cutting space: Lucio Fontana's tagli and buchi (A.D. 1950s and 1960s)
  • Chapter 9. Cutting absolute worlds: grounded frames of reference
  • Inter-text
  • Appendix: recutting Wilsford (A.D. 1960-1962).
  • Cover; Breaking the Surface: An Art/Archaeology of Prehistoric Architecture; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Cutting Pit-houses; Măgura; What to Do? Măgura in Its Context; Galovo-Slavonski Brod; Pit 9; Pits 205 and 207; Pit-house Function at Galovo; Longer Interpretive Contexts; Lewis Henry Morgan and Gordon Childe; Stuart Piggott and Ruth Tringham; Whittle and Souvatzi; Summary; Building a New Approach to Neolithic Architecture; Other Ways of Thinking About Pits and Pit-features: Deposition; John Chapman; Structured Deposition; Refining Structured Deposition
  • The Elephant in the Structured Deposit: Digging the PitOn Digging Ground as "Ground"; Gamble, Locales, and Rituals of Attaching-to; The Questions and Structure of This Book: Art, Archaeology, and Art/Archaeology; Art/Archaeology; Why These Agitants?; Chapter 2: Cutting Skin; The Cut; Consequence; National Response; Congressional Response; International Response; Relevance and Context of 4 Scenes in a Harsh Life for Măgura; Athey's Background and Intentions; Athey on 4 Scenes and His Own Work; The Body; The Audience: Connection, Generosity, and Bearing Witness; Upsetting the Audience
  • The Role of FearFrom Spectator to Witness; Relevance to Măgura; Măgura as Performance; Performer/Cutter/Digger; Audience/Spectator/Witness/Excess/Fear; Intentions/Consequences/Visibility/Ephemera; Unavoidable Unresolved Questions; Chapter 3: Cutting Holes; The Philosophy of Holes; Making Holes; Surfaces; Filling Holes; Do Holes Exist?; Beyond the Conundra; Holes Disrupt; Summary of the Philosophy of Holes; Shape Recognition: The Visual Advantage of Holes (aka Concavities); Why Do People Locate Concavities More Efficiently and More Quickly?
  • The Other Side: Convexity as a Preferred Visual Search TargetSummary: Perception of Concavities/Holes; Relevance to Măgura; Conclusions; Inter-text; Chapter 4: Cutting Deep; The Cut; Interpreting Wilsford: Function or Ritual?; The Contents of the Hole; The Shaft as Well; The Shaft as Ritual; Wilsford in Its Middle Bronze Age Context; Archaeological Context: Community, Society, Comparanda, Explanation; Down Farm; Activities in the Buildings and at the Site; Disposal of the Human Dead; Field Systems; Odd Deposits: Holes and Putting Things in Them; Understanding MBA Living: Social Explanation
  • The MBA Senses of BeingWhat Is the Relevance to the Deep Hole at Wilsford?; Horizontality; Verticality; Does Wilsford Have a Single Function, Meaning, or Significance?; Chapter 5: Cutting Buildings; The Cut; Context of Conical Intersect; Recording and Documentation; Politics of Modernizing Les Halles and the Centre Pompidou Construction; Interpretation of Conical Intersect; Reaction to Conical Intersect; Matta-Clark's Cutting Oeuvre: Major Themes; Matta-Clark and Cutting; Cutting, Action, and Performance; What Cutting Meant to Matta-Clark; Spectating the Cut: Human Experience

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