New perspectives on prehistoric art [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Günter Berghaus

• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 709/.01
• Soggetto topico: Art, Prehistoric
• Altri autori: BerghausGünter <1953->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-254) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; The Discovery and Study of Prehistoric Art; Consciousness, Intelligence, and Art: A View of the West European Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition; Hunter-Gatherer Imagery in Aboriginal Australia: Interpreting Rock Art by Informed and Formal Methods; Cyclical Nucleation and Sacred Space: Rock Art at the Center; Women in Prehistoric Art; Art in Human Evolution; Paleoperformance: Investigating the Human Use of Caves in the Upper Paleolithic; Rock Art and Rock Sites as Indicators of Prehistoric Theater and Ritual Performances; European Modernism and the Arts of Prehistory ; Selective BibliographyIndex; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors. In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and funct
• Titolo autorizzato: New perspectives on prehistoric art
• ISBN: 1-282-40915-8; 9786612409158; 0-313-05957-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780809503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II