Overview
This book is the first to deal comprehensively with the construction, significance, and function of the full range of garments of Aegean women and related attire of men from the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age. As valuable as precious metals, a significant commodity of trade, luxurious in design and decoration, Minoan dress rivaled that of its Near Eastern and Egyptian neighbors. Yet, Aegean costumes and textiles have been among the least understood of the major artistic achievements of the Minoan civilization. Since ancient Aegean textiles and garments have not survived, the study collects, analyzes and compiles a typology of the corpus of garments represented in sculpture, frescoes and glyptic to glean evidence for construction. It further considers the manufacturing techniques of extant Egyptian clothes, comparable images of ancient Near Eastern garments, textile manufacture on the warp-weighted loom, and dress documented in Mycenaean Linear B, Greek and Near Eastern texts. The combined evidence is buttressed by experiments in replicating Aegean and related Near Eastern garments as well as the weave structures of patterned cloths and bands. The replicated clothes are arranged on live models who assume the various positions of the clothed figures in the frescoes and sculptures they imitate, thereby bringing the ancient figures to life. This all inclusive study not only illuminates every aspect of Aegean costume, but the resultant understanding of dress and the way it drapes on the body has led to new restorations of the missing parts of fragmentary garments on figural sculptures and wall paintings.
Full Product Details
Author: B.R. Jones
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Imprint: Peeters Publishers
Volume: Volume 38
Dimensions:
Width: 21.30cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 30.00cm
Weight: 1.474kg
ISBN: 9789042932777
ISBN 10: 9042932775
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 20 October 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
...Many of the book's concepts and recreation proposals concerning Mioan dress are worthy ones. Readers may mine it for insights or to discover points of departure for continued recreation scholarship on this topic. --Abby Lillethun, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2018)
.. .Many of the book's concepts and recreation proposals concerning Mioan dress are worthy ones. Readers may mine it for insights or to discover points of departure for continued recreation scholarship on this topic. --Abby Lillethun, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2018)
