ARTH 260 Lecture 1: ARTH 260 week 1
2 Feb 2017
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Canada has mostly escaped war on its soil. Destructions of architecture and art can have huge impacts. Creative works made my humans that have been left on earth after their death. We often concentrate on what we can still see today. Not often that we study destroyed works of art. Wall paintings, gardens, people, mosaics etc were all lost. In the 18th century (1748) it was unhearthed but not carefully. (restoration in response to war is a (cid:272)o(cid:373)po(cid:374)e(cid:374)t of the (cid:272)ou(cid:396)se(cid:895). The goal of this (cid:396)esto(cid:396)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:449)as to pillage valuables, not to restore. Bamiyan giant buddhas, from the 6th century were destroyed by human violence (taliban by dynamite blasting in march of 2001). Human destruction is often uncontrollable as weather is. People scaled the buddhas to insert dynamite into its crevices and over time they destroyed them. They were immense statues (38 and 55 meters tall).
