Their acoustics were an integral part of that experience, where sound could flutter like the wings of angels.
Sometimes ancient people can design some great architects. They used limited technology and effort but can build buildings consider about the voice, visual, and sense experience at the same time. Also the buildings can be steady and huge. Maybe we should learn from ancients and do not use techonolgy only but use our intelligence to design architechs.
If you don’t write your own history, others are going to write it
History is always written by winner. If we cannot fight for ourselves and try to win our life, we cannot tell the story what we want to tell to others. This is especially important comes to the case like True's. She was not only fighting for herself, but also fighting for art, shared properties. We cannot just forgive in situations like this.
You can’t go to trial on every issue, and in international courts the outcome is uncertain, things are not so easy
I also think it is unappropriate to trial some issues between nation and nation in international court, especially in the situation that there is no specific laws that accepted by both sides. Leave the issue to be decided by a third organization is unfair to both of sides. What to sides should do is to negotiate and try to make a solution that both of sides could be satisfied.
They don't belong to the British, they don't belong to us. They belong to history. They are not pieces of trade
Though there is many conflicts and disagreements in mankind, but I believe art should be our universal mental properties. It is a disrepect to art if we mark a price or ownership to an artwork. Everybody on earth should have the right to access art, learn the beauty and collective memory of the entire human race.
Like the Elgin Marbles, the bust has become one of the totemic objects of a global conversation on culture and who owns it.
Like Egypt, China has also got a bunch of valuable art works stayed in abroad, and lots of them were robbed or stealed by the Western Powers during the colonism area. Two years ago, the belongship and the auction of a group of bronze statues of Chinese Zodiac became a topic. For historical reasons, there are lots of debates on the belongship of the valuable art works. Maybe the musemns and collectors could develop a new mechanism of collection share or transfer base on the principle of respect the property of human being and solve these problems together.
“Our study suggests that other causes, like change in subsistence strategy, by shifting crop patterns rather than climate change was responsible for the Harappan collapse,” Sarkar said.
Climate change was really important to the human's history. They are not just cause famines or migration, but also caused lots of wars and social reform potentially. It's believed the dying of most of the civilization was due to the climate change, because ancient people were so weak to the power of nature. Good cliamte provides food, with enough food birth rate grow and death rate decline so civilization appear. Vise versa, bad weather cause lack of food, conflicts rises and war appear, then civilization would be in danger. Though the article argued other cuases of the vanishment of the civilization beside the climate change, I still insist climate change is the main reason. The reason of changing the subsistence strategy could also be the climate change actually.
For his work, he was rewarded with political power, ultimately founding the Xia dynasty
Harnessing the flood is actually not a easy thing. Small tribes cannot gather so many people to built dams or dig canals. So a powerful and central government need to appear to harness the river. Yu, as the leader of the force of harnessing river, was actually have power on lots of people and resource. So it is not unusual that a man contributed to dealing the flood can build a dynasty. This is also the reason of why the existence of flood is so important to the credibility of Xia dynasty----if there is no flood, a powerful government has no reason to appear.
Modern interpreters tend to see all this as evidence that the pieces were originally granted some kind of power – that they did some kind of magic, or were thought to have failed to. Maybe. It would be nice to think that art and iconoclasm have always been twins. But the pit at Kostienki doesn’t seem to have been associated with any sort of ceremony or sanctity. It just filled up with rubbish. You decide if that suggests the figure had lost its ‘aura’ or never had one in the first place.
It's common that viewers always tend to think that there is some meaning lying under a piece of art work. However, from the perspective of global art :-D， the correlation between the iconography and art work might be wrong. The iconography started in the medieval christian art, and affected the western art since then. However, other forms of art-----eastern, paleolithical...may not have the tradition of imply something under the art work. So maybe we can infer that the paleolithical art means and symbols nothing in the first place.