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Australian rock art : a new synthesis
- Title
- Australian rock art : a new synthesis / Robert Layton.
- Author
- Layton, Robert, 1944-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GN666 .L39 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 284 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- Up-to-date survey of Australian rock images; detailed case studies show the significance of both recent and ancient art; archaeological data; iconography; styles; cultural context; technique; colonial impact on rock art; stencils; geometric rock images; didactic role of paintings and engravings; rock art and the ancestral order in the western Kimberley; increase ceremonies; Oenpelli; motifs; vandalism.
- Subject
- Rock paintings > Australia
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Aboriginal Australians > Antiquities
- Art - Rock painting
- Art - Art motifs - Stencil
- Religion - Rites - Increase
- Art - Art motifs - Geometric
- Art - Rock engraving
- Art - Production - Materials / techniques
- Aboriginal Australians > Antiquities
- Antiquities
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Rock paintings
- Rotstekeningen
- Prehistoric peoples > Australia
- Art aborigène d'Australie
- Aborigènes d'Australie > Antiquités
- Peinture pariétale > Australie
- Art préhistorique > Australie
- Iwi taketake
- Australia > Antiquities
- Gunbalunya / Oenpelli (West Arnhem Land NT SD53-01)
- West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51)
- Australia
- Australie > Antiquités préhistoriques
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Anthropological and archaeological approaches to Australian rock art. A convergence of method. Recent Australian rock art. Continuity with other media -- Ch. 2. Rock art and indigenous religion. The social background. Rock art and the ancestral order in the western Kimberleys. Rock art and increase ceremonies: a comparative survey. Didactic role of paintings and engravings. Geometric rock art and religion in central Australia. Geometric rock art and other media. General conclusion: rock art and Australian religion -- Ch. 3. Rock art as an expression of secular and subversive themes. Secular rock art in the Oenpelli area. Comparative material. Capricious and malevolent figures. Iconography, style and cultural context -- Ch. 4. Rock art and the colonial impact. A visual history of trade and colonisation. The impact of colonisation. Regional variation in colonial history. Survival. Continuity -- Ch. 5. Putting statements in their cultural context. What is culture? Reading rock art. Levels of explanation. Conjectural history. Evaluation of isolated statements -- Ch. 6. Figure and motif. The problem of subjectivity. Classification of geometric figures. Contemporary iconography of geometric rock art. The problem of Koonalda. Classification of figures in silhouette styles. Archaeological typologies of silhouette motifs. Simpler silhouette traditions -- Ch. 7. Stylistic variations in time and space. Definitions of technique. Definitions of style. Emblemic variation. Style classes. Definition of motif. Stencils. Geographical distribution of rock art styles. Distribution in time -- Ch. 8. Rock art and human adaptation in Australia. Changes in the natural environment. Changes in indigenous culture. The cultural context of Australian rock art. Vandalism and alienation.
- ISBN
- 0521346665
- 9780521346665
- LCCN
- 91004054
- OCLC
- ocm23901338
- 23901338
- SCSB-1971977
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library