HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lucha Libre, Teotihuacan, Michael Heizer
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History of art 88 lecture 2 antiquity and modernity: olmec art (mesoamerica) Pre-columbian: before the time of columbus (1492); also known as pre-hispanic, Americas, ancient latin america, primitive, aboriginal: a timeless primitive aspect to the term ancient . Art : visual and material forms of human creativity, ingenuity, and expression. Stratigraphy: reading layers of the earth to show the passing of time. Cutaway, or x-ray, mask: tradition of cutting away part of a mask to reveal the face underneath. All textual documentation is so scarce that modern day historians can gather no real contextual information on culture. Base facts: mesoamerica (veracruz, mexico), 1500-400 bce, olmec refers to the rubber people . Representing the body: the olmec wrestler (luchador) Charges of fake: too good , musculature reminiscent of classical fixation of athletics, nothing similar: olmec baby , ceramic, las bocas, monument 34, san lorenzo, altar 4, la venta, middle formative.
