Aesthetics and rock art

Abstract

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.

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