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Aesthetics and rock art

by Thomas Heyd & John Clegg

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics and Rock art, geoglyphs, and ancient symbols.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openalex and openlibrary matched “Petroglyphs” and “rock art”. Retained metadata contains “Rock art” in the title, “Rock art” in the description, “Petroglyphs” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • rock art· via OpenAlex
    • Petroglyphs· via Open Library
    • Rock art· in title
    • Rock art· in description
    • Petroglyphs· in subject
    • Rock art· in subject
  • Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the description.

    • Consciousness· in description

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2005-01-01Ashgate eBooksEnglishUnknown

Open Library record

2005AshgateEnglish
  • 9780754639244
  • 075463924X
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  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL18496212W
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