Sunday, November 19, 2006

National Socialist Brauron






Interesting no? These pots are from the geometric period and the charming symbol from the century previous to our own present one naturally found its way onto these pots as a likely assemblage of lines creating an entirely anticipatable collocation of angles. That is probably true. And here is a text book case of how present-day culture/history makes us see things and emphasize things that had we another cultural/historical background we would most likely not. Given my assertion about handshakes in a previous post (and in appended comments), the irony of these words is both not lost on me AND delicious.