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Stones Forum >> BBC2 - Ice Age Art: A Culture Show Special
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davidmorgan
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|  Posted 09-02-2013 at 22:57
A good programme on BBC2 about the forthcoming exhibition at the British Museum:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qrmpz/The_Culture_Show_Ice_Age_Art_A_Culture_Show_Special/
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Andy B
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| Posted 10-02-2013 at 01:03
Ice Age Art is a stupendous show. It presents a hundred and more objects in the round, close to the eye and beautifully spotlit so that each has the space to spring its own surprise: the drawing of a reindeer etched in reindeer bone; the articulated puppet; the wild horse carved in ivory. Just to see this earliest art from another Europe, between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, would be sufficient in itself, but what is so remarkable is just how deeply it deserves that name of art.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/feb/10/ice-age-art-british-museum-review
You read it here first, thanks David and Sunny
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6841#comments
I suppose I should ponce along like those pressy types and try and get a free look 
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JohnLindsay
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| Posted 10-02-2013 at 21:03
The strange thing is the name, the arrival of the modern mind...
with the catalogue and the unmodern art combined, I'm reminded of a train arriving at a station, the arrival of the modern mind at the british museum, has been delayed by about one hundred years.
The arrival of the modern mind at the british museum seems to be male, heterosexual, european and figurative...
so there is a huge scope for debate about what happened to the figurative, what happened to the standing stones, to the hand axes, who decides what is called art, what is called modern, or mind, and I've only started on the book...
there is going to be quite a lot going on, and there are now a significant number of social media spaces for discussing these things including the members' chances to tell people about how to walk and visit places not in the museum but in the threatened landscapes of gravel pits and mindless development... making of the modern mind
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jackdaw1
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| Posted 29-03-2013 at 21:59
This was interesting-how they removed the mummified corpse from the glacier was almost barbaric!
BBC Horizon Iceman (1993)
Documentary above.
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