Month: September 2014

Free Public Lecture: Whitney Davis, Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art, UC Berkeley, and Visiting Professor, University of York. This lecture addresses one of the most well-established and influential ideas about prehistoric (and specifically Paleolithic) pictorial representations, namely, the idea that their original makers and beholders did not take them and use them as pictures ‘in our sense’ but instead considered them to be ‘the things themselves’, that is, the objects depicted, such as bison and other animals. But how do we reconcile this idea with the visible activity of mark-making and of ‘painterliness’ –...