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‘This superb exhibition brings us a moving vision of the genius of the Islamic peoples as seen through one of their most favoured means of expression, of the multiple styles created out of a common spiritual and ethical source of inspiration. Calligraphy in the copying of the Quran reveals that spiritual communion which, down the centuries, has brought together under the same faith so many peoples of such diverse sensibilities and traditions.‘For Muslims everywhere the Quran the eternal Word of God—is the basis of all knowledge and wisdom. It is with the Quran that, traditionally, children learned to read and write. This is why the art of calligraphy—the art of copying the Quranhas been such a prestigious one throughout the Islamic world, why so many great artists have devoted their lives to fashioning an aesthetic form for the holy scripture that reflects the highest aspirations of their art.’ (From the speech of Amadou‐Mahtar M'Bow, Director‐General of Unesco, at the opening of the exhibitionQuran and Bindings from the Chester Beatty Libraryat Unesco Headquarters, Paris,

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00337.x

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年代:1981

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The article below is based on an opening address delivered by Emmanuel Anati at a seminar, ‘The Origins of Art’, organized by him at the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici at Valcamonica, Italy, from 30 October to 2 November 1980. The seminar brought together prehistorians from many different countries, who discussed the most ancient forms of artistic creativity, raising questions about the nature of art itself, its psychology and biology and the relationships between art, ideology and religion. By the time this article is published another international meeting will have been organized by the author, from 31 August to 13 September 1981, in co‐operation with Unesco, ICOM and ICOMOS (whose International Committee on Rock Art is in fact headed by him). At this international training seminar on rock art, participants will have studied the exploration, detection, dating, recording, analysis, evaluation, interpretation, conservation and cultural valorization of rock art. A higher degree of professional attainment on a world scale is imperative for the comprehension and protection of art forms that are among the oldest and most significant expressions of human creativity. The seminar aims, therefore, to provide training in the field, to promote standards of procedure and to lay the foundation for an international co‐operation strategy to safeguard rock art. During the seminar participants will also have had the opportunity to attend an International Consultation of Specialists on the Study, Documentation and Conservation of Rock Art. Organized by Dr Anati on behalf of Unesco, with the participation of ICOM and ICOMOS, this meeting aims to define priority measures of international co‐operation.The role of museums, a question on which Museum hopes to reflect current thinking in a future issue, will also have been discussed. In the meantime, we publish below an article about a French prehistoric site—Pincevent—open to scientists but, for want of resources, not yet sufficiently to less special

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00338.x

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The discoveries made by prehistorians are rarely spectacular. The most famous sites, particularly those that have given their names to major subdivisions of cultures, such as Le Moustier and Aurignac, are today no more than featureless empty caves. At best, only a commemorative plaque recalls the importance of the research once carried out there. Even sites that are being excavated are not necessarily more impressive. The remains brought to light disappoint the layman, who sees nothing but a jumble of stones and bones, alongside dull stratigraphic sections. All he can do is to observe excavation methods and wonder at their meticulousness. But Pincevent, on the territory of the commune of Grande‐Paroisse, in Seine‐et‐Marne, France, is among those to which this rule does not

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00339.x

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Such is the variety of Italy's cultural heritage and the imagination—historical, sociological, museological—of its present‐day inheritors, that Museum is never lacking in Italian contributions of real significance. In this issue Professor E. Anati has already discussed prehistoric art, in the article below a Moroccan art historian praises the excellent historical presentation of works of the Umbrian School of Painting by a museum in Perugia; yet he also points out the gallery's museographical shortcomings. In the next article a continuing experiment, which explores the evolution of Bologna and its working community in the industrial age, provides subject‐matter of a diametrically opposed sort: technological culture and its expression through work and social re

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00340.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00341.x

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年代:1981

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It can be argued that one of the most crucial and difficult tasks of the museum is to communicate the cultural heritage in a way that illuminates the contemporary situation. Many institutions understandably remove themselves from the problem by simply attempting an interpretation of the past without any reference to the present.Currently, with developed countries reducing their public expenditure and developing countries caught in recurrent funding problems, there is a strong temptation to emphasize conservation rather than development and to persist in scholarly detachment rather than attempt the more dangerous task of making cultural connections.Certainly there are risks involved in attempting to show the links, and it is most important to present both the cultural heritage and the contemporary situation with integrity. However, as the Director‐General of Unesco pointed out at the Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean (Bogotá, 1978), the cultural heritage is not just the sum total of historical monuments but rather the entire dynamic and living creation of man. To follow through such a sentiment requies a strong emphasis upon the arts of communication and of interpretati

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00342.x

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Located beyond the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent, ancient Sri Lanka was far from being an isolated outpost of human settlement, at the very edge of the great expanse of water between India and Antarctica. Rather, Sri Lanka and its Cultural Triangle formed the ‘main centre from which the influence of Theravada Buddhism and the Sinhalese genius together spread outwards. At various periods, it attracted thinkers, creative artists and scholars from all over the world, and especially from the rest of Asia, who came to give added depth to their faith or broaden their knowledge, meditate in its monasteries, learn from its philosophes or work with its artists. All the buildings, structures and objects still to be found there—whether they be the majestic dagobas of Thuparama, Ruvanvelisaya, Abhayagiri and Jetavana or the splendid frescoes of Sigiriya, the Alahana University at Polonnaruva or the Temple Square in Kandy—bear witness to the exceptional spiritual, cultural and technical developments which the Triangle has lived through down the ages.’1The distinguished Dutch orientalist Dr J. E. van Lohuizen‐de Leeuw explored the historical and cultural background to this art in her introduction to the catalogue of the exhibition, on which the following article is larg

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00343.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00344.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00345.x

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年代:1981

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0033.1981.tb00346.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

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