FAH102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Art Periods, Ancient Greek Art, Corinthian Order
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Tuesday, february 23, 2016 6:15 pm daria murphy. The humanities gave us an understanding of our place as humans between god and animals. Therefore, in the study of d rer"s melencolia print, panofsky tied it to the artist"s malencolia (and unease or unbalance in the body) The artist is struggling to find a visual balance that need to be brought into harmony. This has an ethical dimension to it. Concerned about the contemporary condition of his time o. Increased trade, social revolutions, disparity of rich and poor, periods of nationalism, prominent wars . Look at these problems from a different view point. Background: philosophy, sociology, economy, fiction writer, journalist . Interest in: disparity and balancing out of economy. Didn"t really write on art history, in passing only mentions art in his other writings. He was interested in culture (superstructure) and the conditions that it was created (the base) o o.
