Walter Benjamin, in his famous essay on mechanical reproduction of the artwork, insists that by abolishing the work’s uniqueness and remoteness, mechanical copying destroys its aura, a glamour which had surrounded it ever since art sprang from the thigh of ritual. “[T]hat which withers in ...
I was able to move out of the way in time before the "wave" came spewing by!!! Best regards, Scott Swanbery I had not visited the "Peoples" Republic of China when I received this message. Since then, however, I have been there twice. I have not, however been "fortunate" enough ...
Beyond the immediate needs and subjective aspirations of the individual self, the objective world reflects the changing tides in subtle yet interconnected ways that perhaps reveal and preserve a primality of survival, of deep-seated instincts that modern social conventions have buried or eroded into ir...
The first high-frequency occurring keyword was “neolithic age”. The keyword that appeared most frequently before 2000 was “north china”, followed by “central china”. These two areas as well as “yellow river” actually represented the core area of the earlier culture and civilization of Ch...
The discoveries recorded by the international team of researchers include rock art and animal bones, revealing both how people used the cave network and what their diets were made up of while they were there. The age of these findings indicates the cave, called Umm Jirsan, was regularly...
As mentioned above, the stylistic research has its roots in art history, while the research of techniques and technological styles has been endorsed in the archaeological domain. But is the separation between the practical knowledge, its individual application (singular variations and skills), and vis...
Wild food plants (WFPs) have remained an important ingredient of the traditional food basket since pre-Neolithic times. Historically, local and traditional food systems have given sufficient space to WFPs, and their existence in daily food practices among local communities could be a parameter to ...
It was here, in 1995, that discovery of a rich Gravettian-to-Magdalenian sequence first provided an immediate archaeological context for the valley's open-air Palaeolithic rock art (Zilhão et al., 1995). Under the known colluvial sequence, recent and ongoing excavation work has exposed a ...
“Could I make art with them?” I gave her one of those looks. “You can bugger off. You’re not cutting up all my books to make some art thing.” I moved away from her, picked up an artist book, wanted to show her how beautiful it was. But she wouldn’t take no for an an...
with peaks in the intensity of their use in the Iron Age and early medieval period (Hennius2020; Jordhøy2008). Although rock art dating from the Mesolithic depicts enclosures, reindeer tied to a rope, and people riding reindeer, it is more likely to depict hunting techniques, rituals, an...