IRH 110 Lecture 2: Week 2 - Bronze Age Civilizations.pdf
30 Apr 2013
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These are bronze age civilizations, not to be confused with greek . Other cycladic figurines: don"t confuse with greek, all in contact with one another, disappeared. Minoan: different form other cultures, only looking at knossos in crete, palace discovered 19th century, very large complex, storage. If in island: everything different form egypt but were communicated, no funerary architecture like. Egypt: imagery not militaristic, kings or queens just enjoy picture making. Slide 10, slide 11: octopus vase. 1500 bc: monochromatic, relationship object vs. field, field circular. Octopus tentacles follow shape: diagonal sense of floatiness, object follows shape of vase, floating around, everything has a sense of airiness. Slide 12: not bullfighting but strange activity, conventiosn of representation light girl dark man, we don"t know whats going on. Contour line of bull: bizarre, darker parts originals, reconstructed darker obvious to been able to judge, greek myths. 7 young men and 7 yound women sacrificed to a monster in a maze.
