ARTH 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Chavín De Huantar, Niger River, Mihrab
2 Nov 2014
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Art history chapter 4 medieval worlds. The mental develops diversely in different places. It interacts with writing and building, and high visual cultures arise full of canonical authority. And between the various centres of power and tradition, artistic intermediaries emerge, swapping and blending styles and techniques. Nok culture after the town in the tree-strewn grasslands north of the niger river where the figures came to light. (where the bantu people stemmed) The moche were one of the largest-scale peruvian societies picking up on the cultural foundations laid by the builders of the chavin de huantar temple. (excelled in abstract designs and clay vessels) Sacrificial instruments of kings made for smashing- not idealized. North africa, india, italy, syria, the british isles, 1-750 ce. Craft is firmly hierarchical and compartmentalized and yet among its various levels of authority there is a certain room for creativity to come through. Difference in working practices is why historians classify this period as medieval.
