Teaching 40,000 years of world history as it relates to the history of art brings things back to the forefront of my mind that have not been here for a while. It’s always illuminating to review what’s happened to our species since that last ice age and to see how all that is reflected in the procession of images, sounds, architecture, and texts that have issued from us as from an endless fountain. It’s also significant to consider the contemporary version of this process in relation to all the history that precedes it. To be true to the task, I’ll need to be willing to reconsider my current frame(s) of reference. This is something I do anyway, but not always in relation to the massive array of information that constitutes the aesthetic history of our kind.
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