VISC 1B02 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Upper Paleolithic, Stone Age, Chisel
17 Nov 2016
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What is visual culture?
• Any object that was created by humans and can be seen
• They did’t serve a particular purpose/did’t depit a partiular plae util the -
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• They help shed light on people/places/history itself
The Upper Paleolithic Period: 42,000 – 8000 BCE
➢ Makes records of what they saw (old stone age)
➢ Sculpted figures and cave paintings
➢ No ritte laguage, do’t ko hat/hy they ere ade
❖ Lion Man Statuette
➢ Mammoth ivory
➢ 31.1 cm high
➢ long process – mammoth tusk shaped with a rock
➢ Details with sharp tool (Buren)
❖ Woman from Willendorf
➢ Limestone
➢ Austria, 24,000 BCE
➢ 11cm high
➢ painted red ochre
➢ soeties referred to as the Veus of Willedorf this is isleadig due to the
fact that there was no belief system in place
➢ Not aiig for Naturalis, ephasized y lak of a fae
❖ A Woman with a Bison Horn
➢ Painted limestone
➢ 46cm high
➢ Laussel, France
➢ 25,000 – 20,000 BCE
➢ Could be fertile
➢ Holding a bison horn for unknown reason
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