ARTH 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Stout, Relief, Soapstone
2 Nov 2014
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Art history - chapter 2 - shaping civilization. Stones such as the balsalt heads stake out the first indigenous transitions from small to large scale social structures - and hence to civilization. A lucky hand in the game of history might be one answer. The chavin has tight corridors that drastically restricted the movements and the attention of temple goers who were probably tripping on cactus juice. Three times their height, the monolith might have catalysed their spirit adventures, standing at once for the vertical ascent into the supernatural realm and for the aesome that ruled over it. In the ritual complex of san lorenzo, we start to come across portraiture. The heads all smack of stout authority, but each to some degree individualized. This kind of naturalism seems to have receded as the series of king portraits went on.
