ARTE-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neolithic Architecture, Upper Paleolithic, Lower Paleolithic
26 Apr 2017
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The artist, patron (person who pays for the art work), and viewers: Physical work of art, its location, and use: Larger social issues presented by the work: James j gibson - 20th century psychologist - researched visual perception, came up with the idea of the visual world. A universe of things that an individual sees in the course of his or her life, the world in which a person lives and experiences daily existence. Goal of studying the ancient world is to understand how people saw things in the past. Examine the visual attributes of the objects that people created and used. Examine the ways in which the people arranged them in visually significant patterns. Understand as much as possible about the visual characteristics of the way in which people lived. Appearance of their settlements, pottery, tools, etc. Idea of decoration is a component of social technology.
