The Entrapment of Art: Rock-Art, Order, Subversion, Creativity, Meaning, and the Appeal of Illusive Imagery

Open Archaeology

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António Batarda Fernandes¹ 

[1] Côa Park Foundation, Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Science, Bournemouth University, Universidade de Coimbra

关键词: Côa Valley;    Rock-art;    Upper Palaeolithic;    Subversion;    Creativity;   

DOI  :  10.1515/opar-2018-0017

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: De Gruyter

【 摘 要 】

Bringing together apparently opposing modern and post-modern approaches to interpretation is one of the challenges that lie ahead for rock-art studies. This endeavour may help to surmount ‘no interpretation is possible’ stances (see Bednarik, 2014) and to value rock-art as a diverse and complex phenomenon where precise significance is concealed within multiple meaning-carrying conveyors. The idea that different rock-art traditions (as with any other art form) made use of a given set of symbols (also) aiming to enforce an ‘imagined’ order is instrumental to the present paper. Ancient imagery, despite precise production contexts, materializes the need to resort to visual symbols in order to help maintain social concord, regardless of exact meaning. However, this is a dynamic process; whenever there is an effort to uphold a certain set of moral and social complying principles, there are also nonconformist and subversive attempts to challenge and mutate that same collection of rules.

【 授权许可】

CC BY