ARTH 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Prehistoric Art, Art Periods
12 Aug 2018
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Prehistoric art relies solely on observation, we don"t know much about the background. The knowledge we learn from t s insecure: t has never really been established. Main point from last week: how we structure the info has impact on the knowledge we produce. What emerges from the truth is something that emerged over time. By being studied chronologically, it gives the idea that there is a development, that each new step is something new. It put things into boxes . modern art historians avoid this now. The idea tat whatever is new is better then what is before it, makes it seem like there is a hierarchy and a particular end" to the art periods. Continents falling behind another when nations have different conditions: it is authoritarian. We treat the art history canon as a sacred thing, the idea that everything is there in the first place, and that art historians are there to just observe.
