On Dec 22, 2008, at 6:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Thanks, Michael. But is there any evidence of what some of us might call "artworks" created in Damascus or anywhere between the cessation of cave painting and...and when? I understand that if there was, much of it would have been lost, but is there evidence that it ever did exist? For all we know for sure, is it possible that with the exception of the cave paintings there was no "visual art" at all prior to three or four thousand years ago?
The record is certainly skimpy, but there is a lot of evidence in a number of well-known books, e.g., Frederick Hartt, Art, vol. 1. I'm sure there are other standard history texts that cover the Paleolithic period. And for this topic, even Wikipedia can be a useful
And as the cliche goes, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [email protected]
