tomatoman wrote:
You may or may not like Simon Scharma, but his first episode of this series broadcast last night gave a way-overdue reboot of the origins of human art. This and Mary Beard's second episode are available on iPlayer now.
It was excellent, made me go back and find this poem by Snyder which manages to capture the mystery of how creative we are, especially in death. All those beautiful cave paintings come from the mind, ritual seems unimportant when faced with the human need to express itself......
Under the Hills near the Moravia River
She lay there midst
Mammoth, reindeer, and wolf bones;
Diadem of fox teeth round her brow
Ocher under her hips
26,640 plus or minus 110 years before "now".
Burnt reindeer-pelvis bone bits
in her mouth,
Bones of two men lying by her side,
one each side.
And then there is this - Werner Herzog's film - Cave of forgotten Dreams..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIlEfNbcz7g
