I begin, I must admit, with a mild amount of trepidation. My historically acute avoidance of this obviously important subject is not something I am particularly proud of. Nevertheless, I hope and think this trepidation will be misplaced, given the fist week's intellectual temptations.
I was particularly excited for example, by the 'Bradshaw' paintings in the recent lecture- specifically their anthropological importance. If there is any area of this course that will surely ‘intrigue me into action’ it is certainly the history of human artistic endeavour in relation to our evolution. Why and when we bothered visually translating thought and emotion is a question that mixes biology, anthropology, art, design and about a dozen other specific disciplines into a glorious melting pot of inquiry.
Where this line of inquiry will take me is anyone's guess. At present I have virtually no frames of reference from which to springboard my research, other than stereotypes handed down over years of schoolyard ignorance. Unlike others, I cannot add endless amounts of previous exposure on the topic to this first post, (*cough.. Ms G..*), and will not even attempt it for fear of insulting anybody. Yet I will not allow you, dear reader, to think me totally devoid of any knowledge on the subject, and so will pursue it with a keen sense of obligation to the original inhabitants of this land.
Allow me then, to expunge nothing in this first post other than my new-found enthusiasm for what I'm sure others know only too well; the breathtaking majesty of our original inhabitant's visual and cultural imagination.
I was particularly excited for example, by the 'Bradshaw' paintings in the recent lecture- specifically their anthropological importance. If there is any area of this course that will surely ‘intrigue me into action’ it is certainly the history of human artistic endeavour in relation to our evolution. Why and when we bothered visually translating thought and emotion is a question that mixes biology, anthropology, art, design and about a dozen other specific disciplines into a glorious melting pot of inquiry.
Where this line of inquiry will take me is anyone's guess. At present I have virtually no frames of reference from which to springboard my research, other than stereotypes handed down over years of schoolyard ignorance. Unlike others, I cannot add endless amounts of previous exposure on the topic to this first post, (*cough.. Ms G..*), and will not even attempt it for fear of insulting anybody. Yet I will not allow you, dear reader, to think me totally devoid of any knowledge on the subject, and so will pursue it with a keen sense of obligation to the original inhabitants of this land.
Allow me then, to expunge nothing in this first post other than my new-found enthusiasm for what I'm sure others know only too well; the breathtaking majesty of our original inhabitant's visual and cultural imagination.
What an exciting venture we are about to partake upon! I too am embarrassed to admit my initial lack of enthusiasm at the compulsory nature of the course, however, after the first lecture I am glad it is so.
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