The Rape of the Lock: Or a Comparison between Miniature Images of the Eighth and Eighteenth Centuries

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Abstract

This paper discusses Scandinavian gold foil igures from the early part of
the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 550-1050) as well as miniature portrait pendants of the eighteenth century. he paper examines the possibility of comparing the two categories of objects, and what may be gained by contrasting historic and prehistoric images. he comparison is made through using Mitchell’s concept meta-picture as a theoretical tool. It is highlighted that the relationality between image and beholder is decisive for how respective objects were comprehended and treated. However, despite the fact that the two analyzed materials were part of diferent scopic regimes and regimes of practice, they share vitalistic and/or animistic characteristics.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEncountering Imagery
Subtitle of host publicationMaterialities, Perceptions, Relations
EditorsIng-Marie Back Danielsson, Fredrik Fahlander, Ylva Sjöstrand
Place of PublicationStockholm
PublisherStockholm University, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
Chapter3
Pages29-49
Number of pages21
ISBN (Print)978-91-978257-9-5
Publication statusPublished - 2012 Sept 1
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameStockholm Studies in archaeology
PublisherDepartment of archaeology and classical Studies, Stockholm university
Number57
ISSN (Print)0349-4128

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Archaeology

Free keywords

  • archaeology
  • visual studies
  • art

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