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Coauthored and designed a 180-page volume to accompany an exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK. As part of a transdisciplinary, international project, unearthed explores two of the world’s great figurine traditions: the Japanese Jomon culture (14,000–300 BC) and the Neolithic figurines of southeastern Europe (6500–3500 BC).
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Title page.
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Kokugakuin University archaeologist Taniguchi Yasuhiro’s analysis of breakage patterns of figures.
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Joyce Marcus’ analysis of figurine rituals and Frida with Idol by Nicholas Muray (1939).
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Antony Gormley constructing his installation Field for the British Isles (2004) consisting of 40,000 clay figurines created by local families from St Helens, Merseyside and Slab-shaped Cruciform dogu (Japan 2500–1500 BC).
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Miklos Gaál, Avendia Presidente António Carlos (2004).
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Miloje Vlasic, Preistoriska Vinca (1936) and Hokkaido University archaeologist Kosugi Yasushi’s Jomon Database Project (2000).
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Interview with Michael Askin, an artist who creates cities in miniature. “The other thing about the miniature landscapes was that they tended to draw me in in a most narcotic way. Building a landscape, I existed in its separate space for the duration.”
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Professor Munakata with Ancient Japanese Treasures and the Sutton Hoo Helmet
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Jake and Dinos Chapman, Hell (2008).
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Interview with archaeologist Rosemary Joyce on what attracted her to working with figurines. “Identification with a projected universal humanity I think is a first hook, combined with the way that they prompt narratives.”
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Essay on psychoanalytic effects of absence and censored letter.
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Interview with performance artist and figurine fanatic Shaun Caton. “If dolls are a form of idol, the strangeness and the uniqueness of prehistoric figurines have always been present in my psyche. I first became aware of them as a child visiting museums (vast repositories of lost memories) and viewing them in sparkling glass vitrines.”
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Back-of-book questionnaire and photo of father and son making figurines from clay at an interactive event at the British Museum, London UK (2010).
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Cover gatefold dogu and figurine line drawings by Ian Dennis.
