Abstract

MAYDANA, Sebastián Francisco. Los sueños de la razón. Consideraciones sobre las imágenes de monstruos en el antiguo Egipto. Bol. estét. [online]. 2020, n.52, pp.1-29. ISSN 2408-4417.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36446/be.2020.52.218.

David Wengrow’s The Origins of Monsters. Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2014)skillfully weaves together ideas from diverse disciplinesto answer a problem from ancient history: why monstrous images seem to be more easily transmitted than others. Its recent re-edition provides the propitious occasion to rethink and discuss some of its proposals and arguments. Throughcertain “monstrous” images produced in Predynastic Egypt, some Wengrow’s hypotheses, for which he does not provide further evidence than his intuition, will be reviewed.

Keywords : David Wengrow;Technical Reproduction; Hybrids; Predynastic Egypt;Rock Art.