Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Is there a particular perceptual modality, i.e., a way of seeing rock art figures (zoomorphs and anthropomorphs) which involves simple recognition and is distinguishable from the recognition of these same figures in other contexts?Such a modality would be prioritized by evolution and would depend on elements of a figure and/or of perception which make preliminary identification easy and rapid, for example, typical or dominant views, salient features, pars pro toto processes, visual "invariants" (Gibson 1979), "typical contours" (Deregowski 1984(Deregowski , 1995)).This paper discusses some of the literature on the subject and offers its own perspective on what we term canonicals in life and in art.
Authors: Livio Dobrez, Patricia Dobrez
Institution: Australian National University
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2074776017