ART H101 Lecture : notes for chapters 1-5 (part of notes from chap. 6)
12 Nov 2011
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Context gives meaning and helps us understand why the work is. Content/subject matter what you are looking at, subject matter. Formal qualities physical properties, what it is made of, significant. History is a way of fixing data, prehistory refers to a time before writing was invented. How reliable are understanding is of these people and their culture. Chapter 1: prehistoric art referring to the time before history. Knowledge is not repeated, might change in interpretation, with. Study of the period did not begin until 18th century, during the. 18th century is primative, primative people produce primative things. Paleolithic the old stone age, derived from the misconception that everything was made of stone, roughly between100,000 bc and 8000 bc, further subdivided into lower, middle and upper paleolithic, first date of examples come from 40 000 bc. 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th .
