POLI 300B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Primatology, Ancient Greek Architecture

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 300B
• Professor: Rob Walker

Document Summary

Poli 300b-a01: text about the politics in a particular case, renaissance, modern individualised state or subject, early beginnings of movement and about the beginning. Greeks: memories/stories about places that were once great (greece/rome) rediscovery, once you rediscover you are able to create something, greek architecture: columns, horizontal lines, triangle on top, stone. In greece: iconography: two dimensional, flat imageries (paintings). Prof recommends: look up renaissance perspective to understand: man rather than world separation. It does(cid:374)"t it"s a sele(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e view, hides the real person you only get the face. This face can be constructed so you only see what the surface/representation is: modern world in interested in outer form, we want to know what you look like, no one (cid:272)ares (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou thi(cid:374)k i(cid:374)side. Do(cid:374)"t gi(cid:448)e (cid:455)ourself a(cid:449)a(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s part of (cid:455)our i(cid:374)(cid:374)er (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g, (cid:449)e (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:455)ou o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)el(cid:455): versus; too (cid:373)u(cid:272)h ratio(cid:374)alis(cid:373); let"s go i(cid:374)to the depth, (cid:374)ot the surfa(cid:272)e, or e(cid:454)ter(cid:374)al for(cid:373).