The Archaeology of Seeing: Science and Interpretation, the Past and Contemporary Visual Art. LILIANA JANIK. 2020. Routledge, New York. xiii + 233 pp. $160.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-367-36025-2. $46.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-36022-1. $46.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-429-34333-9.

Title
The Archaeology of Seeing: Science and Interpretation, the Past and Contemporary Visual Art. LILIANA JANIK. 2020. Routledge, New York. xiii + 233 pp. $160.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-367-36025-2. $46.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-36022-1. $46.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-429-34333-9.
Publication Date
2022
Author(s)
Davidson, Iain
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-9704
Email: idavidso@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:idavidso
Type of document
Review
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1017/aaq.2021.135
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/63273
Abstract

The Archaeology of The rich premise of this book is that archaeological art—including cave art of Ice Age Europe—can be compared with art in the recent past, and that it is possible to use ideas from contemporary art criticism when analyzing prehistoric visual art and communication. By "prehistoric," Liliana Janik means art predating written accounts communicated about the art itself, although she does not acknowledge the slight that some Indigenous people feel as a result of that word.
Link
link
Citation
American Antiquity, v.87 (3)
ISSN
2325-5064
0002-7316

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