Aesthetics and rock art
These essays illustrate how an approach stemming from aesthetics adds to the understanding of rock art and also shows how a focus on rock art can contribute to new perspectives in aesthetics. Editor Clegg from University of Sydney, NSW.
XXV, 316 p. : il. ; 22 cm
9780754639244, 075463924X
912366204
Foreword, Jean Clottes; Preface, John Clegg; Overview: Aesthetics and rock art: an introduction, Thomas Heyd; Section I: Palaeolithic cave painting: a test case for trans-cultural aesthetics, Peter Lamarque; Rock art aesthetics: trace on rock, mark of spirit, window on land, Thomas Heyd; Aesthetics across time and place: an anthropological perspective on archaeology, Howard Morphy; Considerations on the art and aesthetics of rock art, Reinaldo Morales; San Art: aesthetically speaking, William Domeris; Section II: The archaeology, anthropology and aesthetics of understanding parietal rock images at La Greze, Cosquer and Wangewangen, Michael Eastham; Integration in Franco-Cantabrian parietal art: a case study of Font-de-Gaume Cave, France, Masaru Ogawa; Perception and ways of drawing: why animals are easier to draw than people, J.B. Deregowski; 'We make lines, follow this direction, then I look and go the other way': excerpts from an ethnography of the aesthetic imagination of the Pitjantjatjara, Ute Eickelkamp; Aesthetics, changing states of consciousness, and rock art, John Clegg; Evolutions of Lascaux, Rowan Wilken; Section III: Illuminations and reflections: looking at Scandinavian rock carvings, John Coles; The visual as a site of meaning: San parietal painting and the experience of modern art, Pippa Skotnes; Divine stalagmites: modified speleothems in Maya caves and aesthetic variation in classic Maya art, Andrea Stone; The aesthetic value of textual images: Pallava script and petroglyphic images on semi-portable stones from Bandung Museum, Indonesia (Western Java), George Nash; Seeing is deceiving: rock art and the non-visual, Sven Ouzman; Index.