Origins of Pictures. Anthropological Discourses in Image Science

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-86962-057-2
Verlag: Herbert von Halem Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

Anyone talking about pictures by necessity refers to those using pictures. It is therefore essentially the competence of using pictures that they must consider. Such a competence is not a common ability even among higher developed mammals, at least as far as we know today. This fact raises the question yet unanswered whether and to what extent that ability has to be conceived of as a strictly anthropological one. In an interdisciplinary approach,the first international conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Image Science (GiB) titled Origins of Pictures has taken a closer look at the role of pictures for the conditio humana.The goals pursued at the conference were first to present empirical findings of the origins of picture uses. In particular, research in paleo-anthropology, archeology, cultural anthropology, and developmental psychology has been considered. Furthermore,those findings have been related to philosophical considerations concerning the conditions of the conceptual formation of picture competence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sachs-Hombach, Klaus

Schirra, Jörg R. J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Klaus Sachs-Hombach / Jörg R. J. Schirra
Introduction

I. Methodological Aspects of Picture Anthropology

Iain Davidson
Origins of Pictures: An Argument for Transformation of Signs

Jean Clottes
Consequences of the Discovery and Study of the Chauvet Cave

Lambros Malafouris
Learning to See: Enactive Discovery and the Prehistory of Pictorial Skill

Christa Sütterlin
Early Face Representation as Proto- or Archetype of Generalized Human Face Perception

II. Relation between Empirical Anthropological Investigations and Synthetic Philosophical Investigations

Søren Kjørup
Resemblance Reconsidered: Confessions and Concessions of a Conventionalist

Jörg R.?J. Schirra; Klaus Sachs-Hombach
The Anthropological Function of Pictures

III. Archeological and Paleoanthropological Perspectives on the »First« Pictures

Christian Züchner
Symbols and Signs of the Earliest Art of Ancient Europe

Nicholas J. Conard; Harald Floss
Early Figurative Art and Musical Instruments From the Swabian Jura of Southwestern Germany and Their Implications for Human Evolution

Ekkehart Malotki
The Road to Iconicity in the Paleoart of the American West

Ellen Dissanayake
Born to Artify: The Universal Origin of Picturing

Tilman Lenssen-Erz
The Dark Ages of Picturing:?Does Art Originate from Caves? A Synopsis

IV. Picture Competence in Developmental Psychology and the Role of Gestures and Facial Expressions

Göran Sonesson
The Picture Between Mirror and Mind: From Phenomenology to Empirical Studies in Pictorial Semiotics

John Matthews
Seven Spots and a Squiggle: The Prehistory of Pictures

Dieter Maurer
Early Pictures in Ontogeny and Phylogeny:?Preliminaries to a Comparison

Sabine Völkel; Peter Ohler
Understanding Pictures in Early Childhood

V. Cultural Anthropology: On the Origins of Pictures and Picture-free Societies

Derek Hodgson
Ambiguity, Perception, and the First Representations

Joachim Knape
Image Textuality, Narrativity, and Pathos Formula: Reflections on the Rhetoric of the Image

Philipp Stoellger
The Image – As Strong as Death? On Death as the Origin of the Image

Helge Gerndt
When Do Images Emerge? Religious Image Practices in the Late Middle Ages

Hans Dieter Huber
Images of the Dead

Ekkehard Jürgens
Pictures – What For? Seven Hypotheses on the Origin of Art

The Authors

Über Autor(innen)

KLAUS SACHS-HOMBACH, born in 1957, studied philosophy, psychology and German language and literature at the University of Münster. After his PhD in 1990 at the University of Münster and his habilitation in 2003 at the University of Magdeburg he was appointed professor of philosophy, focussed on cognitive science, at the TU Chemnitz in 2007. Since October 2011, he holds the chair of media studies at the University of Tübingen. JÖRG R. J. SCHIRRA, born in 1960, studied computer science, physics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychology at the University of the Saarland. After an extended research stay in Berkeley, California, he was responsible for establishing of programme of computational visualistics at the department of computer science at the University of Magdeburg where he later gained his secondary doctorate (habilitation). He is currently representative head of the chair for philosophy and cognitive science at the Technical University of Chemnitz and part of a visual studies team working on an online glossary of visual philosophy.