The unknown ‘Ice Age’ artists of Borneo

婆罗洲不为人知的“冰河世纪”艺术家

• 批准号: FT170100025
• 负责人: Prof Maxime Aubert
• 金额: $ 69.93万
• 依托单位: Griffith University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT170100025
• 关键词: unknown; Ice; Age; artists; Borneo

This project aims to shift the focus of the search for art’s origins onto important new horizons. Who were the first artists? When and why did it become second nature for humans not simply to exist within the natural world, but to encode it with images of things both real and imagined? The discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi and more recently in Borneo dating to at least 40,000 years ago has altered our understanding of the origins and spread of the first painting traditions. This project will build upon these breakthrough discoveries by constructing the first detailed portrait of the cultural and symbolic worlds of the unknown artists of Pleistocene Borneo. By doing so, it will further our knowledge about the process of the emergence of figurative art, one of the most fundamental cultural developments in the evolution of humankind.

该项目旨在将寻找艺术起源的重点转移到重要的新视野。谁是最早的艺术家？什么时候以及为什么人类不只是存在于自然世界中，而是用真实和想象的事物的图像来编码它？在苏拉威西和最近在婆罗洲发现的洞穴壁画可以追溯到至少40,000年前，这改变了我们对第一批绘画传统的起源和传播的理解。该项目将在这些突破性发现的基础上，通过构建第一个详细的婆罗洲更新世无名艺术家的文化和象征世界的肖像。通过这样做，它将加深我们对具象艺术产生过程的了解，具象艺术是人类进化过程中最基本的文化发展之一。