ARTH 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Taxonomy, Prehistoric Art, Cave Painting
3 May 2019
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Not many speci c dates in prehistoric because the dates of these works are based on speculative dating systems. Prehistoric art deals with the very beginning of mans attempt to make art. One of the things that humans do is make art/things or an environment that has an aesthetic aspect to it. This has led art historians to come up with the term homo aestheticus. John onions-neuro art history-how they become attuned to certain sorts of things and makes people create certain kinds of art-he would argue that humans are bound to have an aesthetic impulse because its the way our neuronets are con gured. The way of the future: connecting art history with the study of the brain. Basically reading backwards into the prehistoric period-a lot of the material in this chapter is speculative. Prehistoric art is a vast timespan compared to renaissance for example. Many of the images we"re looking at come from caves.
