Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 11. Februar 1897, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1897, pp. 98-109.
With the discoveries made by Schliemann, the increasing evidence from other cultures around the world and a subtle analysis as we have it in Riegl’s Stilfragen, one can now clearly see that the geometric style was not the earliest to thrive in Greece. The earliest impulses of art seem to have consis...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2012-12-01
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