Instructor's Manual with Tests: The Visual Arts; A History, 2nd Ed, by Hugh Honour&John Fleming - Softcover

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Instructor's Manual with Tests (Eugene Alesch) for The Visual A History, 2nd Edition (Hugh Honour&John Fleming). 237 pages. Paperback. Copyright 1987 Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-942558-6. "...The "Woman from Willendorf" shows a concern for the necessity of procreation, itself an act of survival. At some point, man drew conclusions from coincidences; he related certain phenomena (stoms, sunshine, health, a good hunt) to certain of his acts (a sequence of gestures, or a making of marks). In a short period of time, he came to realize the necessity of performing the latter to insure the former. The proper marks would protect him and put food on the table. Magic and artand well-being were, from the beginning, closely interrealated. Intriguing problems are encountered by the anthropologist and art historian in considering pre-history art objects. There is, in some areas, a great discrepancy, for example, in the painted images of man and animals. Bison, deer and horses were drawn with incisiveness and sensitivity, with a remarkable economy of means, while humans were drawn schematically, almost as abstract makers. It is intriguing, too, to speculate on man's thought processes when he began to use fortuitous arrangements of rock forms and random surface makings with which to construct his images. Did he impose his conceptions on these chance formations, or did he allow his image to flow along the shapes presented to him? Did he use only those natural shapes that coincided closely with his preconception? The concept of context-awareness is difficult to recognize; at what point did man relate his images to one another in a single controlled space, and at what point did sequences of images establish narrative narrative continuity? And when, and in what contexts, did images lose their simple identity to evolue into symbolic language?[from page 1, part Foundations of art, chapter one, before history]" (from book)

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