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Identifying Celts

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VenceslasKruta. Celtic art. 240 pages, 255 colour illustrations. Translated by Keith & Angela Bradford. 2015. London & New York: Phaidon. 978-0-7148-4597-5 hardback £39.95.

JuliaFarley & FraserHunter (ed.). Celts: art and identity. 304 pages, 267 colour illustrations. 2015. London: British Museum. 978-0-7141-2835-1 hardback £40.

IanLeins. Celts: art and identity. 56 pages, 72 colour illustrations. 2015. London: British Museum. 978-0-7141-2837-5 paperback £5.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

Vincent Megaw*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, GPO 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia; Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QH, UK (Email: vincent.megaw@flinders.edu.au)

Extract

The Council of Europe declared 1992 to be the ‘Year of the Ancient Celts’, yet books dealing with the Celts—Celts in the past, Celts today, Celts who never existed—continue to appear unabated. The titles reviewed here are characteristic of three of the main categories of such fare: exhibition catalogues, general introductions and just nice books to look at.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016 

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