Proto-Art: The Origins of Non-Utilitarian Symbolic Thinking and Artistic Creativity
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
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Výsledek na webu
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Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Proto-Art: The Origins of Non-Utilitarian Symbolic Thinking and Artistic Creativity
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
The subject of this study is the genesis of proto-art, art and artistic creativity in prehistory. I tried to answer the questions of what art is, how it can be defined and when it originated, and how it developed. Therefore, special attention is paid to non-utilitarian demonstrations of human creativity during the Middle Paleolithic. There are several archaeologic finds suggesting that members of the Australopithecus were actually able to recognize aesthetic features in the structure of rocks (manuport) and members of the Homo heidelbergensis were able to create artefacts which had an aesthetic dimension. As these finds are rather sporadic, we can only speculate about the existence of proto-art for this period. Nevertheless, we see evidence of the origins of creative artistic thinking in Neanderthals who made artefacts which had, in addition to a utilitarian function, a decorative function. Yet the development of symbolic thinking dates to a later period: it occurred during the evolution of anatomically modern humans who made artefacts with geometric patterns as they moved across Africa. The real expansion of human creativity occurred in the Upper Paleolithic in Europe, when migrating members of Homo sapiens began to create a visualised world of symbolic art.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Proto-Art: The Origins of Non-Utilitarian Symbolic Thinking and Artistic Creativity
Popis výsledku anglicky
The subject of this study is the genesis of proto-art, art and artistic creativity in prehistory. I tried to answer the questions of what art is, how it can be defined and when it originated, and how it developed. Therefore, special attention is paid to non-utilitarian demonstrations of human creativity during the Middle Paleolithic. There are several archaeologic finds suggesting that members of the Australopithecus were actually able to recognize aesthetic features in the structure of rocks (manuport) and members of the Homo heidelbergensis were able to create artefacts which had an aesthetic dimension. As these finds are rather sporadic, we can only speculate about the existence of proto-art for this period. Nevertheless, we see evidence of the origins of creative artistic thinking in Neanderthals who made artefacts which had, in addition to a utilitarian function, a decorative function. Yet the development of symbolic thinking dates to a later period: it occurred during the evolution of anatomically modern humans who made artefacts with geometric patterns as they moved across Africa. The real expansion of human creativity occurred in the Upper Paleolithic in Europe, when migrating members of Homo sapiens began to create a visualised world of symbolic art.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>x</sub> - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)
CEP obor
AC - Archeologie, antropologie, etnologie
OECD FORD obor
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Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2016
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Anthropologie. International Journal of the Science of Man
ISSN
0323-1119
e-ISSN
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Svazek periodika
54
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
3
Stát vydavatele periodika
CZ - Česká republika
Počet stran výsledku
11
Strana od-do
175-185
Kód UT WoS článku
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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
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