Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge - by M Rosengren (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"In the late 19th century in northern Spain and southern France prehistoric mural paintings and engravings were discovered. Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich and much debated material has given rise to. Focusing respectively on the historical and scientific circumstances and controversies and on the epistemic and perceptual problems and questions the discovery of these paintings and engravings gave rise to, the book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies. It criticizes the different ways of trying to make sense of the cave art. Furthermore it suggests, with the help of both Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of technique and Ernst Cassirer's notion of symbolic form, a yet untried way out of the hermeneutical impasse where the interpretation of the paleolithic pictures finds itself today"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Using the example of prehistoric paintings discovered in the late 19th century in Spain and France Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich material has given rise to. The book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>MATS ROSENGREN is Professor of Rhetoric at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a member of The National Research School in Design, member of the editorial board of Glänta and President of the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society. His main interests are the theory and history of rhetoric, epistemology, theory of science, French philosophy, Cave art and artistic research.
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