There are many things that are unknown on the stage under the name “Pregystory”, which we try to get answers through several remaining routes, such as the paintings of the cave or Paleolithic Venusa set of female figurines that were cut during Paleolitis bossesField
Paleolithic Venus is considered ideals of beauty
That is, they will have dates from 40,000 to 10,000 years, and all of them have similar characteristics, such as the exaggeration of female attributes, a small detailed or faceless head, as well as the lack of certain and sizes of limbs, which do not exceed 25 centimeters.
The first was discovered at the end of the 19th century, in the cave of Brother -Pari, in the south -west of France, and the one that was baptized as Venus Brotherpari In honor of the place where he was behind Eduard Pietta And Joseph de LaporterAnd that I will be about 25,000 years old.
Since then, they have been attributed to the name Venus in relation to the Roman goddess of beauty for considering it as an idea of the ideal of the beautiful in the background, as well as the cult of fertility, where Willendorf Venus This is his icon, the sculpture, which was found in 1908 on the banks of the Dunak in the Vahaau Valley.
McDermotta theory and Hodge McCoid about Venus, which may be the first independent
Exactly Willendorf Venus It was accepted as a link for the theory that revolutioned to look at this set of figurines, which they presented Leroy McDermatot And Katherine Hodge McCoid In 1996, he changed the focus.
The theory of McDermott and McCoid gives another point of view, and claims that these figurines can be the work of women who represented themselves, who can be considered the first self -confident, which we have.
Leroy McDermatot and Catherine Khoj McCoid came to this conclusion after they made photos from the eyes of a pregnant Caucasian woman and did the same from Willendorf Venus, Receiving in both similar photographs, so repulsion from the female body that we see in the figurines may be associated with the “woman who looks at himself”, according to the authors of this theory.
“It is quite possible that since these figures were discovered, we simply looked at them from an irregular angle,” McDermott and McCoid said, explaining that although he offers a different point of view and directs attention to women as an author, was not doubted and was not valid.
However, when it collects the spread of art history Helen Sotok In his book Neither muse, nor submissive: an enlightened overview of the history of Western art with a feminist prospect This theory has made “Androcentrism of ignition in order to leave women space for self -knowledge and artistic creation.”
