ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book proposes a new perspective on the understanding of art, from its origins and the subsequent development of the creative process from the period when humans started using visual communication as we understand it, to the present. It includes the relationship between visual art studies, the anthropology of art and archaeology, and the role of visual arts in the interpretation of the past. The book presents various examples of visual images and material culture: Palaeolithic paintings and sculpture, Australian traditional paintings, Classicist etching, modern and contemporary art in particular Jim Bond, Paddy Carlton, Antony Gormley, Hans Hartung, Damien Hirst, Meyndert Hobbema, Julian Opie, Cormelia Parker, Giovanni-Battista Piranesi.
