Chapter 12 The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock art
Studies of rock art normally depart from a classification of type, style and what the motifs represents or depicts. South Scandinavian rock art, however, is often vague, incomplete and fragmentary. In this chapter, it is argued that certain rock art motifs, mainly boats and anthropomorphs, were deli...
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| description | Studies of rock art normally depart from a classification of type, style and what the motifs represents or depicts. South Scandinavian rock art, however, is often vague, incomplete and fragmentary. In this chapter, it is argued that certain rock art motifs, mainly boats and anthropomorphs, were deliberately made incomplete as a part of a vitalist technology with the aim of affecting the world. An important aspect of such visual vagueness, intentional or not, is that it can function as a punctum in Roland Barthes’s terminology and evoke affect among beholders. The incomplete motifs also stress the making of rock art as a continuous process in which details can be added over time to enhance certain aspects or radically alter the motif. The chapter is illustrated with examples of Bronze Age rock art of the Mälaren district in central-eastern Sweden. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-342042025-01-24T05:57:35Z Chapter 12 The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock art Fahlander, Fredrik Bronze age rock art anthropomorphs vitalist technology Boglösa Sweden thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3B Prehistory thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History Studies of rock art normally depart from a classification of type, style and what the motifs represents or depicts. South Scandinavian rock art, however, is often vague, incomplete and fragmentary. In this chapter, it is argued that certain rock art motifs, mainly boats and anthropomorphs, were deliberately made incomplete as a part of a vitalist technology with the aim of affecting the world. An important aspect of such visual vagueness, intentional or not, is that it can function as a punctum in Roland Barthes’s terminology and evoke affect among beholders. The incomplete motifs also stress the making of rock art as a continuous process in which details can be added over time to enhance certain aspects or radically alter the motif. The chapter is illustrated with examples of Bronze Age rock art of the Mälaren district in central-eastern Sweden. 2021-02-10T14:15:03Z 2021-02-10T14:15:03Z 2020-10-20T10:55:01Z 2020 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42649 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34204 eng Social Archaeology and Material Worlds open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42649/1/9781526142856_ch12.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42649/1/9781526142856_ch12.pdf Manchester University Press bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 Images in the making Stockholms Universitet b86489d9-6e9f-40f3-ab85-3d7c0f7896fa 14 Manchester open access |
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