Thursday, April 25, 2013

Samantha King - Ancient Art and Ritual - Class Reading #1


In Ancient Art and Ritual, Jane Ellen Harrison says art and ritual rise out of a common impulse. An impulse causes humans to act (emotion).

Harrison says,

 We must not only utter emotion, we must represent it, that is, we must in some way reproduce or imitate or express the thought which is causing us emotion. “


By this quote, it means that you have to fully experience an emotion. Once you feel that emotion, you must represent it by expressing the cause of the emotion. You can do this through art. Rather it be through music, drama, etc.

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