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Canonical Figures and the Recognition of Animals in Life and Art

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dc.contributor.authorDobrez, Livio
dc.contributor.authorDobrez, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T23:34:13Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.updated2020-12-20T07:21:52Z
dc.description.abstractIs there a particular perceptual modality, i.e., a way of seeing rock art figures (zoomorphs and anthropomorphs) which involves simple recognition and is distinguishable from the recognition of these same figures in other contexts? Such a modality would be prioritized by evolution and would depend on elements of a figure and/or of perception which make preliminary identification easy and rapid, for example, typical or dominant views, salient features, pars pro toto processes, visual "invariants" (Gibson 1979), "typical contours" (Deregowski 1984, 1995). This paper discusses some of the literature on the subject and offers its own perspective on what we term canonicals in life and in art.
dc.identifier.issn0716-1530
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/69355
dc.publisherMuseo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
dc.sourceMuseo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. Boletin
dc.titleCanonical Figures and the Recognition of Animals in Life and Art
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage22
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage9
local.contributor.affiliationDobrez, Livio, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationDobrez, Patricia, private
local.contributor.authoruidDobrez, Livio, u7400029
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor200514 - Literature in Spanish and Portuguese
local.identifier.absseo950203 - Languages and Literature
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB1999
local.identifier.citationvolume19
local.identifier.doi.4067/S0718-68942014000100002
local.type.statusPublished Version

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