Skeuomorphs’: on the rhetoric of material in the Gumelniţa tradition

The social changes, which characterise the Chalcolithic in southeastern Europe, which coincide with the emergence of metals, imposed a new material and led to the emergence of skeuomorphs (i.e. copies of objects made from a material different from that of the originals). Some gold objects from the G...

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Main Author:	Dragoş Gheorghiu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2012-12-01
Series:	Documenta Praehistorica
Subjects:	materiality skeuomorph Spondylus shell gold Gumelnita tradition
Online Access:	https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1826

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spelling	doaj-177e0500952446ecb69f77587ef805592020-11-24T22:24:34ZengZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)Documenta Praehistorica1408-967X1854-24922012-12-013910.4312/dp.39.211524Skeuomorphs’: on the rhetoric of material in the Gumelniţa traditionDragoş Gheorghiu0National University of Arts, BucharestThe social changes, which characterise the Chalcolithic in southeastern Europe, which coincide with the emergence of metals, imposed a new material and led to the emergence of skeuomorphs (i.e. copies of objects made from a material different from that of the originals). Some gold objects from the Gumelnita tradition were objects of value, such as the valves of exotic shells, which therefore become visible in the form of paraphernalia. The present paper discusses the rhetoric of material visible in the shape and proximity of originals and skeuomorphs.https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1826materialityskeuomorphSpondylus shellgoldGumelnita tradition
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title	Skeuomorphs’: on the rhetoric of material in the Gumelniţa tradition
title_short	Skeuomorphs’: on the rhetoric of material in the Gumelniţa tradition
title_full	Skeuomorphs’: on the rhetoric of material in the Gumelniţa tradition
title_fullStr	Skeuomorphs’: on the rhetoric of material in the Gumelniţa tradition
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publisher	Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
series	Documenta Praehistorica
issn	1408-967X 1854-2492
publishDate	2012-12-01
description	The social changes, which characterise the Chalcolithic in southeastern Europe, which coincide with the emergence of metals, imposed a new material and led to the emergence of skeuomorphs (i.e. copies of objects made from a material different from that of the originals). Some gold objects from the Gumelnita tradition were objects of value, such as the valves of exotic shells, which therefore become visible in the form of paraphernalia. The present paper discusses the rhetoric of material visible in the shape and proximity of originals and skeuomorphs.
topic	materiality skeuomorph Spondylus shell gold Gumelnita tradition
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Skeuomorphs’: on the rhetoric of material in the Gumelniţa tradition

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