Tempering the much adopted art-historical approach, Harding argues for a broader definition of Celtic art. Contrary to recent attempts to deconstruct the Celts as an ethnic entity altogether, he argues that there were communities in Iron Age Europe that were identified historically as Celts, regarded themselves as Celtic, or who spoke Celtic languages, and that the art of these communities may reasonably be regarded as Celtic art. Though the La Tène styles represent the summation of achievement of Celtic art, the origin and geographical distribution of Celtic art extend well beyond the La Tène culture zone....
Название: The archaeology of celtic art
Автор: D. W. Harding
Издательство: Routledge
Год издания: 2007
ISBN: 0-203-69853-3
Формат: PDF true
Язык: русский
Страниц: 335 pages
Размер: 11.7 Mb
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