Thinking through images : narrative, rhythm, embodiment and landscape in the Nordic Bronze Age / Christopher Tilley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tilley, Christopher Y., author.

Series:

Swedish rock art series ; 7.

Swedish rock art series ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroglyphs--Scandinavia.

Petroglyphs.

Bronze age--Scandinavia.

Bronze age.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 213 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Havertown,PA : Oxbow Books, 2021.

Summary:

This book provides a general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley's research in this area over the last thirty years. It offers a novel alternative theoretical perspective stressing the significance of visual narrative structure and rhythm, using musical analogies, putting particular emphasis on the embodied perception of images in a landscape context. Part I reviews the major theories and interpretative perspectives put forward to understand the images, in historical perspective, and provides a critique discussing each of the main types of motifs occurring on the rocks. Part II outlines an innovative theoretical and methodological perspective for their study stressing sequence and relationality in bodily movement from rock to rock. Part III is a detailed case study and analysis of a series of rocks from northern Bohuslän in western Sweden. The conclusions reflect on the theoretical and methodological approach being taken in relation to the disciplinary practices involved in rock art research, and its future.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Swedish Rock Art Series

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Preface: thinking images through (Joakim Goldhahn)

PRELUDE

Theorising the powers of imagery

The structure of the book

PART I: ARIAS: MOTIFS AND INTERPRETATIONS

Boats

The development of a ‘maritime’ perspective

Boats and cosmological structures

Boats and exchange

Landscape, value and identity

Wealth and value in Bohuslän: the alternative affluence of carvings

Boats and death rituals: art for the living, or for the dead?

Boat motifs on the rocks at Brastads-Backa

Humans

Human figures on the rocks at Brastads-Backa

Feet and shoe-soles

Feet and shoe-soles on the rocks at Brastads-Backa

Animals

Animals on the rocks at Brastads-Backa

Birds

Birds on the rocks at Brastads-Backa

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Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (JSTOR, viewed September 10, 2022).

Description based on print version record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed June 12, 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781789257021

1789257026

9781789257045

1789257042

OCLC:

1430658278