Research Catalog

Title

Aesthetics, applications, artistry and anarchy : essays in prehistoric and contemporary art : a festschrift in honour of John Kay Clegg 11 January 1935-11 March 2015 / edited by Jillian Huntley and George Nash.

Publication

• Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Clegg, John, 1935-2015
• Huntley, Jillian
• Nash, George

Description

vi, 171 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 29 cm

Summary

Scholar and artist John Clegg made a pioneering contribution to the study of rock art. He was the first in the Australian academy to teach rock art research as a dedicated subject (Sydney University 1965-2000), supervising the first graduate students with such specialty, subsequently supporting their careers. He is honoured here for much more than his novelty and the contributions in this monograph pay homage to the late John Kay Clegg's diverse influence. Rock art researchers from around the globe traverses topics such as aesthetics, the application of statistical analyses, frontier conflict and layered symbolic meanings, the deliberate use of optical illusion, and the contemporary significance of ancient and street art. They cover rock art assemblages from Columbia, South Africa, Europe and across Clegg's beloved Australia. They interrogate descriptive and analytic concepts such as repainting, memorialisation and graffiti, as well as questioning the ethical impactions of research practices touching rock art as a part of its study. The tributes in this book are necessarily as individual as the man they honour, and John Clegg was certainly an individual. The longevity of ideas and perspectives Clegg brought to the pursuit of rock art research is demonstrated in this collection of works. Clegg's continued relevance is testament to the value and magnitude of his contribution. He is a deserving subject for a Festschrift.

Series Statement

Archaeopress Archaeology

Uniform Title

Archaeopress archaeology

Subject

• Rock paintings
• Petroglyphs
• Art, Prehistoric
• Art, Prehistoric
• Petroglyphs
• Rock paintings

Genre/Form

• Festschriften
• Festschriften.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Claire Smith -- Prologue / Jilian Huntley -- Introducing and remembering John Kay Clegg / Jo McDonald -- Pre-Columbian rock art and sensitive cognition / Reinaldo Morales Jr. and Howard Risatti -- Rock art in the landscape: John Clegg's path / Thomas Heyd -- Rock engravings in western New South Wales: A comparative analysis of the Panaramitee tradition site of Sturts Meadows / Natalie R. Franklin -- The rock art of aboriginal Australia from Pleistocene to the present / Josephine Flood -- The contemporary cultural significance of Gallery Rock, a petroglyph complex recently found in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Australia / Paul S. C. Taçon, Wayne Brennan, Graham King, Dave Pross, and Matthew Kelleher -- Degrees of change: amendment and alteration in Australian aboriginal rock art / Robert G. Gunn -- Optical illusions and perceptual determinants in rock art / Ben Watson -- Symbolism, aesthetics, and narrative in rock art / Jamie Hampson -- On thinking outside the square as a strategy for seeing into the innermost circle or how a reading of graffiti may help to penetrate the cave wall; with thanks to John Clegg / Margaret Bullen -- Breaking all the house rules: the politics and grammar of disrespecting contemporary graffiti / George Nash -- Celebrating the life of John Clegg: touching rock-art can be a touchy subject / compiled by Jane Kolber -- John Clegg, aux antipodes des representations paléolithiques: le style Panaramitee (John Clegg, at the antipodes of Paleolithic representations: the Panaramitee style) / Denis Vialou -- University administrators and mathesis / Christopher Chippindale -- Parting remarks / Jillian Huntley and George Nash.

ISBN

• 1784919985
• 9781784919986

LCCN

2018493521

OCLC

• on1075574268
• 1075574268
• SCSB-9710937

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library