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July 16, 2019

The faux pas of primitivism

“Lascaux 170”by Ma Boîte à Image is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In post war France, prehistoric art got people talking. At least it got intellectuals talking, but this being France we can imagine that the zone of interest was widespread. The basis for this post, about primitivism in the…

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June 27, 2019

How French is Lascaux?

In a hypothetical word association game, I predict that food, the Eiffel Tower and the Mona Lisa would all get a mention long before Lascaux. The cave at Montignac seems French only insofar as a specimen of moon rock appears to be American. Today I was reading about the heritage…

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