description: Rock art research, the study of painting and drawing on rock surfaces made by peoples from time immemorial up to the present, is a field that is growing in importance in such disciplines as archaeology, anthropology, and art history. This book is the first treatment of the subject to analyse it from the perspective of aesthetics. Divided into three parts, The role of aesthetics in rock art research, Aesthetic appreciation of rock constitutive factors, and Case opportunities and tensions in cross-cultural appreciation, the editors have collected 16 essays by leading authorities in aesthetics and rock art. The book includes contributions from Peter Lamarque on Palaeolithic cave a test case for trans-cultural aesthetics, John Coles on Illuminations and looking at Scandinavian rock carvings, and Howard Morphy on Aesthetics across time and an anthropological perspective on archaeology.
language: English
title: Aesthetics and Rock Art
titlecomplete: Aesthetics and Rock Art
publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd