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dc.contributor.authorFahlander, Fredrik
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-20T10:55:01Z
dc.date.available2020-10-20T10:55:01Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42649
dc.description.abstractStudies 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSocial Archaeology and Material Worldsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / regionen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3B Prehistoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of arten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.otherBronze ageen_US
dc.subject.otherrock arten_US
dc.subject.otheranthropomorphsen_US
dc.subject.othervitalist technologyen_US
dc.subject.otherBoglösa Swedenen_US
dc.titleChapter 12 The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock arten_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdden_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookdbb1521d-47a4-44a4-b865-8cc45a9d9d5cen_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByb86489d9-6e9f-40f3-ab85-3d7c0f7896faen_US
oapen.pages14en_US
oapen.place.publicationManchesteren_US


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