Publisher's Synopsis
Table des Matieres - Ingo PINI, Towards a Standardization of Terminology. Problems of Description and Identification - Janice L. CROWLEY, The Icon Imperative: Rules of Composition in Aegean Art - Paul REHAK, Tradition and Innovation in the Fresco from Room 31 in the 'Cult Center' at Mycenae - Thomas G. PALAIMA, Mycenaean Scribal Aesthetics - Marie-Henriette GATES, Mycenaean Art for a Levantine Market? The Ivory Lid from Minet el Beidha/Ugarit - Michael B. COSMOPOULOS, The Development of Iconography in the Early Bronze 2 Aegean - Wolf-Dietrich NIEMEIER, Iconography and Context: the Thera Frescoes - Robert LAFFINEUR, Iconography as Evidence of Social and Political Status in Mycenaean Greece - Jennifer M. WEBB, Cypriote Bronze Age Glyptic: Style, Function and Social Context - John CHERRY, Beazley in the Bronze Age? Reflections on Attribution Studies in Aegean Prehistory - Christina A. TELEVANTOU, Theran Wall-Painting: Artistic Tendencies and Painters - Charles GATES, Art for Children in Mycenaean Greece - Jan BOUZEK, The Structure of Minoan Representational Art - Michael WEDDE, Pictorial Architecture: for a Theory-Based Analysis of Imagery - Sarah P. MORRIS, Prehistoric Iconography and Historical Sources: Hindsight through Texts? - Carol G. THOMAS, Aegean Bronze Age Iconography: Poetic Art? - Isabel McBRYDE, Archaeology and Art, Art as Archaeology: Problems of Cultural Context and Chronology in Australian Aboriginal Rock Art - Andree ROSENFELD, Recent Developments in Australian Rock Art Studies - Gisela WALBERG, Minoan Floral Iconography - Anna Lucia D'AGATA, Late Minoan Crete and Horns of Consecration: a Symbol in Action - John G. YOUNGER, Representations of Minoan-Mycenaean Jewelry - Edmund F. BLOEDOW, On Lions in Mycenaean and Minoan Culture - Judith POWELL, Archaeological and Pictorial Evidence for Fishing in the Bronze Age: Issues of Identification and Interpretation - Wolfgang SCHIERING, Elements of Landscape in Minoan and Mycenaean Art - Henri and Micheline van EFFENTERRE, L'iconographie du temps dans la glyptique creto- mycenienne - Plenary discussion.
