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an art/archaeology of prehistoric architecture
Art/archaeology of prehistoric architecture
Bailey, Douglass W. (Douglass Whitfield)
"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 creation of holes. The book begins with a detailed examination of the extant remains of Neolithic pit-houses, the roofed dugout structures that are the earliest evidence for settled habitation in Europe. Rather than seek confirmation for what has already been theorized about their use (e.g., housing, storage, refuse), the author turns to the more specific actions of the people who dug these holes in the surface, and, more critically, to the consequences that those prehistoric actions had on those people's understanding of their place(s) in their ground worlds: how digging into the surface altered their perspectives of themselves and others, and of their world and of other worlds beyond the material and visible. The book turns to how scholars in other disciplines, such as philosophy and linguistic anthropology, have been asking similar questions about holes and the consequences of breaking and cutting. The resulting book offers comprehensive discussions of the philosophy of holes and perforations (particularly the paradox of a hole - does it exist, is it beyond materiality?), the linguistic anthropology of cut- and break-words (what diversity exists in the ways that extant communities talk and think about perforations and perforating), and the perceptual psychology of concavities (the case that holes attract our visual attentions)"--
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bailey, Douglass W. (Douglass Whitfield), 1963-
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018