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Early Celtic Art in Britain and Ireland
by Megaw, Ruth, and Megaw, Vincent
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0747806136
- ISBN 13
- 9780747806134
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Shire Publications, 2008. 2nd ed. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. This widely praised introduction, now extensively revised and enlarged, examines the predominantly warrior and aristocraftic art of the Iron Age inhabitants of Britain and Ireland from the fourth century BC until the Roman conquest. Since these communities, conventionally referred to as Celts, were peoples with an oral tradition, medieval Irish and Welsh texts embodying these traditions are a very uncertain guide to the life and culture of peoples of upwards of a millennium earlier. Celtic art is thus one of the rare, if obscured, windows into the minds and souls of early Celts. Much of the surviving art decorates metalwork, usually weapons or items of personal adornment; there is little or no securely dated sculpture, whether in stone or wood. This is an art style whose imagery is elusive, non-representational and non-narrative, and thus difficult to analyse. This book looks at Celtic art made by communities who lived in Britain and Ireland a thousand years and more before the creation of the Book of Kells or the Ardagh Chalice, the art which is more popularly known as 'Celtic
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010027791
- Title
- Early Celtic Art in Britain and Ireland
- Author
- Megaw, Ruth, and Megaw, Vincent
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0747806136
- ISBN 13
- 9780747806134
- Publisher
- Shire Publications
- Place of Publication
- Buckinghamshire
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 5x0x8
- X weight
- 6 oz
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