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“Haselberger (1961) defined works of art as objects produced with the intention that they be aesthetically pleasing and not merely...

Pure wonder? What period are you placing this action? If it’s as far back as I think you’re suggesting then it can’t have been from a...

Originally I’d looked at this question through painting, but I can see now that pottery has the longest history with measurable evidence...

Thanks for sticking with this. Even though I don’t agree it’s had me digging a bit deeper.

“The 6th century BCE was a golden age for Greek pottery, dominated by the flourishing black-figure technique, with Athens becoming the...

How do you reach this conclusion? You’ve presented no proof. I notice you emphasise this being your opinion, which you use to protect...

Why’s that?

Wise woman.

Not impossible though. Art is representation. Decoration is introduced not as self-expression but as surplus—value layered onto...

So your feeling is that art existed before man came along.

Looks like I may not be round much longer. I seem to have upset the gods in the St Francis of Assisi Church thread.

This is too vague. The idea of art still hasn’t been isolated. You try to nail it by saying it’s expression, and pottery is expression...

Jung didn’t refer to feelings as the collective unconscious? He meant instinctive memories, archetypal forms. Of course it’s a theory...

Like I said; culture first.

All songs fulfilled a cultural need. They couldn’t be anything else. They were about that culture. They sprung from that culture...