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Guest Lecture: The History of Art as a ‘Picture’ of the Evolution of Consciousness

Join us for part II of our lecture series with Robert Stewart, The History of Art as a ‘Picture’ of the Evolution of Consciousness

Every age has produced art that was correlated to a particular stage of cultural evolution.
As a kind of culturalization of Ernst Haeckel’s biogenetic law that
‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’, in this case, the art of each age
represents one stage in the evolution of human consciousness.
From Paleolithic to Conceptual Art, this lively presentation will ex-
plore the relationship between our evolving consciousness and pic-
torial representation, between society and the works of the Great
Masters of visual art.