No. 52 (2020)
Articles

Dreams of Reason: Some Remarks on Monstrous Images in Ancient Egypt

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  • Sebastian F. Maydana
Sebastian F. Maydana
Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental “Dr. Abraham Rosenvasser”, Argentina; Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36446/be.2020.52.218

Published 2020-09-21

Keywords

  • David Wengrow,
  • Technical Reproduction,
  • Hybrids,
  • Predynastic Egypt,
  • Rock Art

How to Cite

Maydana, S. F. (2020). Dreams of Reason: Some Remarks on Monstrous Images in Ancient Egypt. Bulletin of Aesthetics, (52), 7–44. https://doi.org/10.36446/be.2020.52.218

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Abstract

David Wengrow’s The Origins of Monsters. Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction skillfully weaves together ideas from diverse disciplines, in order to answer a problem from ancient history: why monstrous images seem to be more easily transmitted than others. Its recent re-edition provides the perfect occasion to rethink and discuss some of its proposals and arguments. Through certain “monstrous” images produced in Predynastic Egypt, some Wengrow’s hypotheses, for which he does not provide further evidence than his intuition, will be reviewed.

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