That’s really silly. Most of us who have art history degrees learn the evolution

That’s really silly. Most of us who have art history degrees learn the evolution of the technology of representation, and we do so almost exclusively through the history of the representation of the human form. Furthermore, given that ‘all art evolved in context of the architecture it was displayed in’, it either conformed to the architecture (egypt, gothic cathedrals) or the architecture conformed to it (Greeks, Romans, Renaissance artists). The economics of construction dictated that relationship. And if you’ve ever tried to teach stone sculpture to students the difficulty in producing each generation of sculpture is rather obvious.

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