Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present

Andrzej Rozwadowski, Jamie Hampson, Andrzej Rozwadowski, Jamie Hampson

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789698473
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Art

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents Page
• A Brief Note about the Editors
• Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present: An Introduction
• Indigenous Art in New Contexts: Inspiration or Appropriation?
• The Cave of Altamira and Modern Artistic Creation
• Joane Cardinal–Schubert: Ancient Contemporary
• Face to Face with Ancestors: Indigenous Codes in the Contemporary Art of Siberia
• Contemporary Views on Rock Art from Within the Frame: Indigenous Cultural Continuity and Artistic Engagement with Rock Art
• PalimpsGestures: Rock Art and the Recreation of Body Expression
• In the Name of the Ancestors: Repainted Identities and Land Memories
• Muraycoko Wuyta’a Be Surabudodot / Ibararakat: Rock Art and Territorialization in Contemporary Indigenous Amazonia – the Case of the Munduruku People from the Tapajos River
• Appropriation, Re-Appropriation, Reclamation: The Re-Use of New Zealand’s Most Renowned Māori Rock Art
• Reproduction, Simulation and the Hyperreal: A Case Study of ‘Lascaux III’ 2015–2017