Rock art animals in profile: Visual recognition and the principles of canonical form

The article examines factors involved in rapid and easy visual identification of animals in life and art. It gives an account of what we term canonical form in connection with 'basic level' recognition, profile depiction and the concept of salience. In the course of this it introduces disc...

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Published in:Rock art research 2013-05, Vol.30 (1), p.75-90
Main Authors: DOBREZ, Livio, DOBREZ, Patricia
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Rock paintings
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