Metaphor as aesthetic principle in the pre-hispanic art of the argentine northwest

The paper proposes a series of hypothesis about metaphor as an aesthetic principle that underlies the symbolic functioning of a specific kind of objects during the Middle Period of the Argentine Northwest (400-900 B.C.). It is considered that metaphors exist not only in the iconic configuration but...

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Main Author: María Alba Bovisio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 2012-04-01
Series:Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222012000100011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=es