based on cross-cultural research. This approach expands earlier theoretical interpretations offered for the significance of cave art that fail to account for central aspects of cave art material. Clottes & Lewis-Williams (1998), Smith (1992) and Ryan (1999) concur in the interpretation that neurologically-based shamanic practices were central to cave art (cf. Lewis-Williams 1997a,b). Clottes & ...

Truck art has a long and illustrious tradition in South Asia. It is, above all, one of Pakistan's most popular globally recognized forms. The visual representation the cultures four regions is cause for this form's appeal. As result, truck evolved into means expressing many cultural ideas via appealing quality its images. Such images emphasize significance location or place from where vehicle c...

Gothic Art and Architecture, religious and secular buildings, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century). Gothic art began to be produced in France about 1140, spreading to the rest of Europe during the following century. The Gothic Age ended with the advent of the Ren...

Art historian James Elkins, in his book On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, tells a story of a sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago titled 14 Stations of the Cross. Elkins teaches at the school and was interviewing students about their own religious-themed art. This Stations was “a large ceramic church, about two and a half feet high” covered with a “gray an...

In the Principality of Serbia in 19th century, Orthodox Church represented a significant entity and had privileged position as state national institution. This all affected its place public life, well control church activities regarding churches' construction, equipping, painting, renovation. Thus, aesthetical criteria, demands, effects cultural scientific were tremendous factor making art comm...