ARTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Invisible Cities, Inanna, Warka Vase

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10 Mar 2018
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Art102 week 2: common patterns and alternatives in the production of art and the built environment. Common patterns and alternatives indicated on the map(green areas) the regions we are looking at this week(mesopotamia, indus valley, egypt and crete) and next week(china) centres of agricultural development, which has to do with river valley civilization. Art(in the temples) as tributes, donations or taxes: gobekli tepe, urfa (temple) The huge construction requires use amount of labour (slaves) hint of hierarchy: uruk and the temple of inanna. The king was at the same time the chief priest of the city a hint of social hierarchy. Religious and political site at the same time. The city emergences around the temple a re ection of the society/social structure. The access to the temple was only granted to the selected few the priest king and the king.

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