Rock Spaces as «Open Works»: A Look at the Process of Making and Transforming Caves with Rock Art in the East of Catamarca (Argentina)
Abstract
In this paper we attempt to advance the understanding of the process of painting in caves with rock art at Ancasti’s Highlands (Catamarca Province, Argentina) from chemical analysis of pigment mixtures with which the paintings have been made. Thus, we suggest the possibility of understanding some of the art in these caves as «open works», i.e.: as the result of addition of motives over a process whose duration, perhaps long, we do not know.
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