This book provides a general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley’s research in this area over the last thirty years. It offers a novel alternative theoretical perspective stressing the significance of visual narrative structure and rhythm, using musical analogies, putting particular emphasis on the embodied perception of images in a landscape context.Part I reviews the major theories and interpretative perspectives put forward to understand the images, in historical perspective, and provides a critique discussing each of the main types of motifs occurring on the rocks. Part II outlines an innovative theoretical and methodological perspective for their study stressing sequence and relationality in bodily movement from rock to rock. Part III is a detailed case study and analysis of a series of rocks from northern Bohuslän in western Sweden. The conclusions reflect on the theoretical and methodological approach being taken in relation to the disciplinary practices involved in rock art research, and its future.
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A critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art that offers a new theory of visual narrative structure and rhythm.
List of Figures List of Tables Preface by Joakim Goldhahn Acknowledgements Prelude PART I: ARIAS: MOTIFS AND INTERPRETATIONS PART II: CABALETTA: LANDSCAPE SETTING AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: THE RHYTHMIC VISUAL ARTS OF NARRATIVE PART III: FINALE: PERAMBULATING THE ROCKS Postlude References Index
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This book is a masterclass in deconstructing rock art and the landscape in which it stands.
New title in the Swedish Rock Art series examining rock art in terms of how the types, grouping and distribution of images can be understood as integral in the human experience of landscape in prehistory
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781789257014
Publisert
2021-09-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxbow Books
Høyde
280 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232

Forfatter

Biographical note

Christopher Tilley is Professor of Anthropology, University College London. He is the author and editor of numerous books in the fields of archaeology, anthropology and material culture studies.