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Item Number: 106228Title: Wayland's Work: Anglo-Saxon Art, Myth & Material Culture from the 4th to the 7th Century
Author: Pollington, Stephen ; Lindsay Kerr ; Brett Hammond
Price: $170.00
ISBN: 9781898281566
Description: Swaffham: Anglo-Saxon Books, 2010. 30cm., hardcover, 544pp., 62 color, 226 b&w illus. Summary: This book is big in size and scope. Here you will find new analyisis, images and information about early English art and the culture that inspired it. Wayland's Work contains 226 black & white drawings and 62 colour plates. Nearly all of these images were commissioned for this book - many show previously unpublished artifacts. Nothing on this scale has been achieved for nearly 100 years. This is the book about the origins and cultural significance of Anglo-Saxon art. It has sometimes been suggested that in all the metalwork and archaeological oddments we have from the Anglo-Saxon period, there is nothing one could call ‘art’. The contributors to this book believe that not only was there considerable artistry in the output of early Anglo-Saxon workshops, but that it was vigorous, complex and technically challenging. The designs found on Anglo-Saxon artefacts is never mere ornament: in a society which used visual and verbal signals to demonstrate power, authority, status and ethnicity, no visual statement was ever empty of meaning. The aim of this work is to prompt a better understanding of Anglo-Saxon art and the society which produced it.
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