Image and Audience

Richard Bradley is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading.

• I. THE PROBLEM WITH PREHISTORIC ART ; 1. The division of the spoils ; 2. Pattern and purpose ; II. IMAGE AND AUDIENCE IN MEGALITHIC ART ; 3. Notes from underground ; 4. The lives of statues ; 5. In open country ; III. IMAGE AND AUDIENCE IN BRONZE AGE SCANDINAVIA ; 6. Ships on bronzes, ships on stones ; 7. Crossing the water ; 8. The origin of fire ; IV. PREHISTORIC ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY ; 9. Losses in translation

A reviewer of one of Bradley's earliest books commented that he could only find one fault in it - that the author had the trick of making what he wrote seem so easy and natural. It is a talent that he has maintained, making any of his major works, including this, immediately take its place as a leading contribution to the field with which it engages.