Sessions 11-12: Domesticated Images, Part I

Boric, Dusan. 2005. Body metamorphosis and animality: volatile bodies and boulder artworks from Lepenski Vir. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 15:35-69.

Bradley, Richard. 2001. Human, animals and the domestication of visual images. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 11(2):261-3.

Watkins, Trevor. 2004. Architecture and 'theatres of memory' in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia. In Rethinking Materiality, edited by Elizabeth DeMarrais et al., pp. 97-106.

Whittle, Alasdair. 2000. 'Very like a whale': menhirs, motifs and myths in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Northwestern Europe. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10(2):243-59.

Comments to be posted by evening of October 8.

Lepenski Vir

What do these images mean?

What do they do?

What do they want?

Göbekli Tepe (Turkey)

What do these images mean?

What do they do?

What do they want?

Sessions 9-10: Twilight of the Idols, Part II

Lewis-Williams, David. 2002. The Mind in the Cave. Thames and Hudson.

Comments to be posted by evening of Oct 1.

Sessions 7-8: Twilight of the Idols, Part I

Bataille, George. 2005. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture. Zone Books. (Selections)

Mithen, Steven. 1999. Symbolism and the supernatural. In The Evolution of Culture: An Interdisciplinary View, edited by Robin Dunbar, Chris Knight and Camilla Power, pp. 147-169. Rutgers University Press.

Comments to be posted by evening of Sept 24.

Sessions 4-6: On Object Agency

Gell, Afred. 1998. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford University Press.

Comments to be posted by the evening of Sept. 15.

Session 3: What Do Pictures Want?

Mitchell, W. J. Thomas. 2005. Chapters 1 and 2. In What Do Pictures Want? University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Comments to be posted by the evening of Sept 8.