Twenty-six thousand years ago in the Czech Republic, one of our ice-age ancestors selected a hunk of mammoth ivory and carved this enigmatic portrait of a woman - the oldest ever found.From New Scientist. Photo: Moravian Museum, Anthropos Institute.
Twenty-six thousand years ago in the Czech Republic, one of our ice-age ancestors selected a hunk of mammoth ivory and carved this enigmatic portrait of a woman - the oldest ever found.From New Scientist. Photo: Moravian Museum, Anthropos Institute.
In Sister Wendy's The Story of Art, she says something like "Art changes, but it doesn't get better."
ReplyDeleteProof right here.
Coincidentally, I was just looking here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/90519713/ceramic-head-primitive-primitive-art?ref=sr_gallery_31&ga_search_query=99heads&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_page=2&ga_search_type=all
ReplyDeleteSeriously, the tusk may be that old... but how do they know it was not carved in the 70's?
ReplyDeletePresumably from the associations of the object with others at the same site:
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