Aesthetics, applications, artistry and anarchy : : essays in prehistoric and contemporary art : a festschrift in honour of John Kay Clegg, 11 January 1935 - 1 March 2015 / / edited by Jillian Huntley and George Nash.

• Author: Huntley, Jillian
• TeilnehmendeR: Clegg, John, 1935-; Huntley, Jillian,; Nash, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (183 pages) :; illustrations, maps
• Notes: Festschrift for John Kay Clegg.

This volume, in honour of John Kay Clegg, consists of papers by rock art researchers from around the world on topics such as aesthetics, the application of statistical analyses, frontier conflict and layered symbolic meanings, the deliberate use of optical illusion, and the contemporary significance of ancient and street art.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Jillian Huntley -- Introducing and remembering John Kay Clegg -- Jo McDonald -- AESTHETICS -- Pre-Columbian Rock Art and Sensitive Cognition -- Reinaldo Morales Jr.1 and Howard Risatti2 -- Rock art in the landscape: John Clegg's path -- Thomas Heyd -- APPLICATIONS -- Rock art engravings in western New South Wales: A comparative analysis of the Panaramitee Tradition site of Sturts Meadows -- Natalie R. Franklin -- The Rock Art of Aboriginal Australia from Pleistocene to the Present -- Josephine Flood -- The contemporary cultural significance of Gallery Rock, a petroglyph complex recently found in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Australia -- Paul S.C. Taçon,1 Wayne Brennan,2 Graham King,2 Dave Pross3 and Matthew Kelleher4 -- ARTISTRY -- Degrees of change: amendment and alteration in Australian Aboriginal rock art -- Robert G. Gunn -- Optical illusions and perceptual determinants in rock art -- Ben Watson -- Symbolism, Aesthetics, and Narrative in Rock Art -- Jamie Hampson -- ANARCHY -- On thinking outside the square as a strategy for seeing into the innermost circle or how a reading of graffiti may help to penetrate the cave wall -- with thanks to John Clegg. -- Margaret Bullen -- Breaking all the house rules: the politics and grammar of disrespecting contemporary graffiti -- George Nash -- APPENDICIES -- Celebrating the life of John Clegg: Touching rock-art can be a touchy subject -- John Clegg, aux antipodes des représentations paléolithiques : le Style Panaramitee (John Clegg, at the antipodes of Palaeolithic representations: the Panaramitee Style) -- Denis Vialou -- University Administrators and Mathesis -- Christopher Chippindale -- Parting Remarks -- John Clegg's published works.