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 a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Rostovtzeff Lectures ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 10 halftones. 23 line illus. 1 map. |
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