Trithemius
March 18th, 2006, 09:26 PM
This guy sees a lot of cave art as nothing more than cave-teen graffiti.
R. Dale Guthrie, natural historian, sculptor and professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, sees Paleolithic art lifted from cave walls and makes a connection to 21st century walls -- the stalls of a junior high boys' bathroom.
Some social anthropologists and art historians focus on the most detailed examples of prehistoric art and see symbols of religion or mysticism. Guthrie looked at thousands of more rudimentary drawings that never make it into coffee table art books. He saw themes that have always seized young boys' brains, and stimulated them to draw -- large animals, bloody spears, male sex organs, voluptuous women.
Link (http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7542816p-7454281c.html)
R. Dale Guthrie, natural historian, sculptor and professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, sees Paleolithic art lifted from cave walls and makes a connection to 21st century walls -- the stalls of a junior high boys' bathroom.
Some social anthropologists and art historians focus on the most detailed examples of prehistoric art and see symbols of religion or mysticism. Guthrie looked at thousands of more rudimentary drawings that never make it into coffee table art books. He saw themes that have always seized young boys' brains, and stimulated them to draw -- large animals, bloody spears, male sex organs, voluptuous women.
Link (http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7542816p-7454281c.html)