Publication details
L’art laténien : pour et par les élites ?
| Title in English | La Tene art, by and for elites? |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The historiographical tradition on Late Iron Age "Celtic" art systematically explains this phenomenon as a mode of expression of the elites who would order craftsmen or import prestigious objects. It stems from the construction of the knowledge of Late Iron Age art essentially on the corpus of rich burials. However, Celtic arts are plural and this model does not explain all their forms. A critical analysis and a broader definition of the notion of art objects allow us to see Late Iron Age societies that were more imbued with this aesthetic. Some richly ornamented objects were created to be seen by all, and were particularly complex examples of a shared visual culture. The ornamentation of rather common objects (such as pottery) in non-elite contexts sometimes followed codes similar to those for prestige goods. |
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