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oapen-20.500.12657-426492020-10-21T00:45:48Z Chapter 12 The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock art Fahlander, Fredrik Bronze age rock art anthropomorphs vitalist technology Boglösa Sweden bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region::HDDA Prehistoric archaeology bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues::ABA Theory of art bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities Studies 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. 2020-10-20T10:55:01Z 2020-10-20T10:55:01Z 2020 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42649 eng Social Archaeology and Material Worlds application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781526142856_ch12.pdf www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526142849 Manchester University Press Images in the making 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd dbb1521d-47a4-44a4-b865-8cc45a9d9d5c b86489d9-6e9f-40f3-ab85-3d7c0f7896fa 14 Manchester Stockholms Universitet Stockholm University open access
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Studies 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.
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