Seeing different motifs in one picture : Identifying ambiguous figures in South Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art
(2020) In Cogent Arts & Humanities 7(1).- Abstract
- Ambiguous figures, as described in visual perceptual psychology, are single pictures that contain several possible, mutually exclusive, motifs. Some specific cases of images in South Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art can be fruitfully analysed as ambiguous figures. Furthermore, we argue that these images represent some sort of narrativity, which needs to be understood in order to make a perceptual switch between different motifs in one picture. Using a semiotic approach, we describe the experiential requirements on the perceiver for seeing the different motifs, which differ in their iconic complexity.
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- author
- Cabak Rédei, Anna LU ; Skoglund, Peter LU and Persson, Tomas LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-08-17
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Psychological Science, Visual Communication, Visual Arts, Prehistoric Archaeology, Art, Psychological Science, Visual Communication, visual arts, Prehistoric Archaeology, Art
- in
- Cogent Arts & Humanities
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 21 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85089506760
- ISSN
- 2331-1983
- DOI
- 10.1080/23311983.2020.1802804
- project
- Storytelling in Rock Art
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 8dccb29c-8aca-4909-a2de-52843d3051dd
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