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Geometric Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

R. P. Austin
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There is some special quality inherent in primitive art which arouses our curiosity about the personality, the aims, and the methods of its creators. The outline of the reindeer roughly incised on a rock, the crude figure of a man carved out in stone, which betoken the difficult achievement of a race low in the scale of civilization, often excite in us keener interest and speculation than the more facile perfection of the masterpieces of a later age.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 7 , Issue 19 , October 1937, pp. 18 - 24
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1937

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page 21 note 1 Teachers will be reminded here of something often met with in the drawings of young children. For example, at the early stages they try to draw the outside of a house and show the contents of the rooms all in one view; or they show the front and two ends of the house as seen at the same time. They are trying in fact to show in one drawing all they know about the house. There is certainly something of this composite ‘memory-picture’ work present in Geometric art.