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(2012) Cave art, perception and knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Cave opening

Mats Rosengren

pp. 9-18

Let us briefly look at a decisive moment in the construction of the Western notions of image and depiction: Plato's cave as it is described in Book VII of The Republic.1 It is introduced as part of a long analogy, destined by Socrates to explain the human condition.

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137271976_2

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Rosengren, M. (2012). Cave opening, in Cave art, perception and knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 9-18.

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