Eikon Aegean Bronze Age Iconography : Shaping a Methodology : Proceedings of the 4th International Aegean Conference/4e Rencontre Egénne Internationale, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 6-9 April 1992

Twenty-four papers from the 4th International Aegean Conference in 1992, divided into four thematic areas: composition and style, artistic medium and social context, extracting meaning and motifs and themes. Contents: Ingo PINI, Towards a Standardization of Terminology. Problems of Description and Identification ; Janice L. CROWLEY, The Icon Imperative: Rules of Composition in Aegean Art ; Paul REHAK, Tradition and Innovation in the Fresco from Room 31 in the 'Cult Center' at Mycenae ; Thomas G. PALAIMA, Mycenaean Scribal Aesthetics ; Marie-Henriette GATES, Mycenaean Art for a Levantine Market? The Ivory Lid from Minet el Beidha/Ugarit ; Michael B. COSMOPOULOS, The Development of Iconography in the Early Bronze 2 Aegean ; Wolf-Dietrich NIEMEIER, Iconography and Context: the Thera Frescoes ; Robert LAFFINEUR, Iconography as Evidence of Social and Political Status in Mycenaean Greece ; Jennifer M. WEBB, Cypriote Bronze Age Glyptic: Style, Function and Social Context ; John CHERRY, Beazley in the Bronze Age? Reflections on Attribution Studies in Aegean Prehistory ; Christina A. TELEVANTOU, Theran Wall-Painting: Artistic Tendencies and Painters ; Charles GATES, Art for Children in Mycenaean Greece ; Jan BOUZEK, The Structure of Minoan Representational Art ; Michael WEDDE, Pictorial Architecture: for a Theory-Based Analysis of Imagery ; Sarah P. MORRIS, Prehistoric Iconography and Historical Sources: Hindsight through Texts? ; Carol G. THOMAS, Aegean Bronze Age Iconography: Poetic Art? ; Isabel McBRYDE, Archaeology and Art, Art as Archaeology: Problems of Cultural Context and Chronology in Australian Aboriginal Rock Art ; Andree ROSENFELD, Recent Developments in Australian Rock Art Studies ; Gisela WALBERG, Minoan Floral Iconography ; Anna Lucia D'AGATA, Late Minoan Crete and Horns of Consecration: a Symbol in Action ; John G. YOUNGER, Representations of Minoan-Mycenaean Jewelry ; Edmund F. BLOEDOW, On Lions in Mycenaean and Minoan Culture ; Judith POWELL, Archaeological and Pictorial Evidence for Fishing in the Bronze Age: Issues of Identification and Interpretation ; Wolfgang SCHIERING, Elements of Landscape in Minoan and Mycenaean Art ; Henri and Micheline van EFFENTERRE, L'iconographie du temps dans la glyptique creto- mycenienne ; Plenary discussion.