For this first Discussion, using at least three specific works of art or architecture from the book “gardners art through the ages: backpack edition” linked it:https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9781305544895/pageid/40 and the time period and cultures from the lectures in this Unit (identified accurately, with title, culture, and date) to support your points, assess the accuracy of, respond to, and analyze the following quote:
“Art of prehistoric, and early historic, cultures is the most critical to our understanding of the ‘humanness’ of mankind. For it is in the caves of Spain and France, in the temples of Iraq, on the plains of the British Isles, and the other rich artistic and architectural treasures of such worlds that we—today—can see ingenuity, creativity, and the step toward abstract thinking most clearly. Where else can we see the moment in which mankind becomes truly sentient? Where else can you see the beginnings of belief and civilization? Where else can you point to a sculpture, or a painting, or a monument and say ‘Ah, yes, of course. We are all the same.’?”
