Rock Art and its Legacy in Myth and Art

Höfundar: Christoph Baumer; Therese Weber (Útgáfa: 1)
Rock Art and its Legacy in Myth and Art

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Rock art is mankind's oldest artistic expression. The first creation of rock carvings (petroglyphs) and rock paintings (pictographs) by Homo sapiens represented on multiple counts a quantum leap in mental performance. In Rock Art and its Legacy in Myth and Art Christoph Baumer tells the story of these remarkable creations of early human imagination in Eurasia, Arabia and the Sahara. Petroglyphs not only reflect societal and economic adaptations to climate changes but also encapsulate the worldviews, myths and rituals that prevailed for tens of thousands of years, and even down to the present.

In a final chapter the artist Therese Weber describes the work of contemporary artists from different cultures who engage with rock art and introduces her own work which is inspired by her exploration of petroglyphs. Vividly illustrated throughout with 340 full colour images and 10 maps, this book is a celebration of the legacy of petroglyphs as a means of expression and of recording events and coded messages, as well as a source of inspiration for modern-day artists.

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Útgefandi
Bloomsbury UK
ISBN
9780755650453
Print ISBN
9780755650446
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Christoph Baumer; Therese Weber
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2026-03-19
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
10

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • 1. Definitions and Methods
  • I. Defining Rock Art and Contextualizing Petroglyphs
  • 1. Petroglyphs and other forms of rock art
  • 2. Is rock art ‘art’?
  • 3. The ‘invention’ of rock art
  • II. Petroglyphs as a Mirror of Climate Changes, Economic Transformations and Beliefs
  • 1. The conceptual grid
  • 2. Dating petroglyphs
  • 3. Early records of rock art
  • 4. Interpreting rock art
  • 2. Rock Art by Major Region
  • III. Central Asia
  • 1. Geography, climate and migrations
  • 2. Mongolia, Tuva and Siberia
  • Excursus: Deer stones and anthropomorphic stone figures
  • 3. Kazakhstan
  • 4. Kyrgyzstan
  • 5. Tajikistan
  • 6. Uzbekistan
  • IV. Himalaya, Transhimalaya and Karakoram
  • 1. Western Tibet, Ladakh and Zanskar
  • 2. Gilgit-Baltistan
  • V. Caucasus
  • 1. Northern Europe: Fennoscandia
  • 1.1. Northern Fennoscandia
  • 1.1.1. Murmansk oblast and Russian Karelia
  • 1.1.2. Alta, Norway
  • 1.1.3. Nämforsen, central Sweden
  • 1. 2. Southern Fennoscandia
  • 1.2.1. Bohuslän and Østfold
  • 1.2.2. Central and south-eastern Sweden
  • 2. Alpine Central Europe
  • 2.1. Val Camonica
  • Excursus: The anthropomorphic stone steles in the south-western Alps
  • 2.2. Alpine Switzerland and France
  • VII. Arabia
  • 1. Saudi Arabia
  • 1.1. History of research
  • 1.2. Climate, fauna and rock art
  • 1.3. Rock art sites by region
  • 1.3.1. Northern Saudi Arabia
  • Excursus: Ancient scripts of Arabia
  • 1.3.2. Central Saudi Arabia
  • 1.3.3. Southern Saudi Arabia
  • 2. Jordan
  • 2.1. The Black Desert
  • 2.2. Petra and al-Sila
  • 2.3. Wadi Rum
  • 3. Oman
  • VIII. Central Sahara
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Climate, fauna and petroglyphs
  • 3. The chronology of Saharan petroglyphs
  • 4. Wadi Djerat
  • 3. The Influence of Rock Art on Contemporary Art
  • IX. Transferring the Past into the Future
  • 1. Pioneers of narration
  • 1.1. The emergence of a dialogue with rock art
  • 1.2. Transfer methods: sketches, photos and frottages
  • 1.3. Approaches to rock art
  • 2. Open-air archives: an artist’s narrative
  • 3. Contemporary artists and rock art
  • 3.1. Paul Klee and the departure from the norm
  • 3.2. Engagement with petroglyphs in Arabia and northern Africa
  • 3.3. Prehistoric rock art as a path to Indigenous identity
  • 3.4. The allure of prehistoric art and mythology
  • 3.5. Rock art and modern technologies
  • 3.6. Street art as a global discourse
  • 4. Bringing the past into the present: Exhibitions featuring rock art and contemporary art
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Maps
  • Photo Credits
  • Acknowledgements
  • Indexes
  • Concepts
  • People
  • Places
  • eCopyright