- Title
- Early visual communication: introducing the 6000-year-old Buon Frescoes from Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan
- Creator
- Drabsch, Bernadette; Bourke, Stephen
- Relation
- Arts Vol. 8, Issue 3, no. 79
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8030079
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The collection of 5th Millennium BCE frescoes from the Chalcolithic (4700-3700 BC) township of Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan, are vital signposts for our understanding of early visual communication systems and the role of art in preliterate societies. The collection of polychrome wall murals includes intricate geometric designs, scenes illustrative of a stratified and complex society, and possibly early examples of landscape vistas. These artworks were produced by specialists using the buon fresco technique, and provide a visual archive documenting a fascinating, and largely unknown culture. This paper will consider the place these pictorial artefacts hold in the prehistory of art.
- Subject
- art; frescoes; Teleilat Ghassul; Jordan; preliterate art; chalcolithic; Southern Levant; visual comunication; iconography; social hierarchy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1419113
- Identifier
- uon:37415
- Identifier
- ISSN:2076-0752
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
- Language
- eng
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