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Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present
Contributor(s): Rozwadowski, Andrzej (Editor), Hampson, Jamie (Editor)
ISBN: 1789698464     ISBN-13: 9781789698466
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $41.58  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: June 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | History - Prehistoric & Primitive
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 709.011
LCCN: 2021391786
Physical Information: (0.68 lbs) 150 pages
 
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Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present sets out a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. In recent decades, archaeological approaches to rock paintings and engravings have significantly advanced our understanding of rock art in regional and global terms. On the other hand, however, little research has been done on contemporary uses of rock art. How does ancient rock art heritage influence contemporary cultural phenomena? And how do past images function in the present, especially in contemporary art and other media? In the past, archaeologists usually concentrated more on reconstructing the semantic and social contexts of the ancient images. This volume, on the other hand, focuses on how this ancient heritage is recognised and reified in the modern world, and how this art stimulates contemporary processes of cultural identity-making. The authors, who are based all over the world, off er attractive and compelling case studies situated in diverse cultural and geographical contexts.