TY - CHAP
T1 - Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art
T2 - An Anthropological Perspective
AU - Morphy, Howard
PY - 2012/7/23
Y1 - 2012/7/23
N2 - This chapter explores a neglected theoretical issue in rock art: the recursive potential of rock art as a medium of expression. Rock art provides a reservoir of images for succeeding generations who can not only view and interpret the record, but also use it as a source of information that influences their present practice. This chapter will focus on the recursive element in Aboriginal Australian art practice and show how this is reflected in the ways in which rock art has been utilized by subsequent generations as part of an ongoing dialogue with images from the past. [T]here is a folding and unfolding in time, in which that which folds unfolds and refolds in a past that is never gone. (Deleuze 1983 :61).
AB - This chapter explores a neglected theoretical issue in rock art: the recursive potential of rock art as a medium of expression. Rock art provides a reservoir of images for succeeding generations who can not only view and interpret the record, but also use it as a source of information that influences their present practice. This chapter will focus on the recursive element in Aboriginal Australian art practice and show how this is reflected in the ways in which rock art has been utilized by subsequent generations as part of an ongoing dialogue with images from the past. [T]here is a folding and unfolding in time, in which that which folds unfolds and refolds in a past that is never gone. (Deleuze 1983 :61).
KW - Archaeological, sequencing and retouching evidence, insights into the cultural
KW - Australian rock art, recursive and iterative, an anthropological perspective
KW - Earlier anthropologists/archaeologists, lesser attention to oral tradition and rock art
KW - Holistic view of Aboriginal society, rock art, in appreciating social trajectories
KW - Kimberley, Wanjina style, pre-existing images and incorporation in present practice
KW - Recursive element in Aboriginal Australian art, as reflected in rock art
KW - Recursivity, tradition in dialogical relationship with human agency
KW - Rock art being linked, to iterative and recursive elements of art practice
KW - Rock art from the Indigenous perspective, past artistic practices and identity of place
KW - Rock art, a continuing place in the lives of the Indigenous in Australia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873969218&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/9781118253892.ch17
DO - 10.1002/9781118253892.ch17
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781444334241
SP - 294
EP - 305
BT - A Companion to Rock Art
PB - John Wiley and Sons
ER -