Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge /
Rosengren, M.author.
Using the example of prehistoric paintings discovered in the late 19th century in Spain and France Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich material has given rise to. The book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Outside. How it is done -  a readers guide -- Cave opening. Some Platonic qualms: the mimetic curse in cave art studies ; On texts and images ; Text ; images -- Doxa. Specifying doxa I - Protagoras ; Doxa - first approximation ; Specifying doxa II - Bourdieu -- Caves. The beginnings of a discipline ; Cave 'art'? ; The creation of cave art - Altamira and onwards ; Seeing what is there -- Doxa. Specifying doxa III - the epistemology of Ludwick Fleck ; Thought style, active and passive connections ; Thought collective ; Truth and facts ; Facts ; Flecks topicality ; Seeing what there is - bodily conditions ; The relevance of antique perceptual theory ; The degree zero of perception - the relevance of contemporary cognitive science -- Caves. The validity of interpretations ; Art for art's sake ; The uncanny modernity of cave art ; Hunting magic and totemism ; Structured messages - art as language ; Art as reports of shamans ; What could it mean to validate an interpretation ; The criteria, doxologically seen ; The doxa of cave-art studies, a compressed version ; The thought collective, the style and the topoi -- Caves and doxa. Technique, technology and creation (Castoriadis) ; Social imaginary signification, creation out of nothing - a brief overview ; What is technique? ; Doxology and symbolic forms (Cassirer) -- Outside - again.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-165) and index.
Using the example of prehistoric paintings discovered in the late 19th century in Spain and France Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich material has given rise to. The book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies.
Epistemology.
Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Archaeology.
Epistemology.
History of Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Archaeology.