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32.4 That Which Continues to Haunt
A span of time connecting the Borneo banteng to the self-referential double-portrait
of the “Arnolfini Portrait” of 1434 by Flemish master Jan van Eyck, with the mirror
reflecting the artist, and the little lap dog Brussels Griffon perhaps indicating the
couple’s everyday wish to have a child, shows us how distant yet connected are
these cave paintings of the mind.
14
The divergence from nonviolence to violence,
and the embrace of artistic documentation as a means of reporting upon this great
ethical and aesthetic quandary, appears to have taken place at some twilight point
14 See “Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait,” by Erwin Panofsky, The Burlington Magazine for
Connoisseurs, Vol. 64, No. 372, March 1934, pp. 117–119, 122–127, https://www.jstor.org/
stable/865802?seq=1, Accessed March 23 2020.
Fig. 32.3 “General Mackenzie’s Fight With The Cheyennes, And Death Of Lieut. McKinney,
Drawn with coloured pencils, by Big Back, a Cheyenne Indian,” in Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three
Years’ Personal Experience Among the red men of the Great West, by Colonel Richard Irving
Dodge, A.D.Worthington & Co., Chicago, Ill., 1884, p. 412. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C.
Tobias)
32.4 That Which Continues to Haunt
32.4 That Which Continues to Haunt
A span of time connecting the Borneo banteng to the self-referential double-portrait
of the “Arnolfini Portrait” of 1434 by Flemish master Jan van Eyck, with the mirror
reflecting the artist, and the little lap dog Brussels Griffon perhaps indicating the
couple’s everyday wish to have a child, shows us how distant yet connected are
these cave paintings of the mind.
14
The divergence from nonviolence to violence,
and the embrace of artistic documentation as a means of reporting upon this great
ethical and aesthetic quandary, appears to have taken place at some twilight point
14 See “Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait,” by Erwin Panofsky, The Burlington Magazine for
Connoisseurs, Vol. 64, No. 372, March 1934, pp. 117–119, 122–127, https://www.jstor.org/
stable/865802?seq=1, Accessed March 23 2020.
Fig. 32.3 “General Mackenzie’s Fight With The Cheyennes, And Death Of Lieut. McKinney,
Drawn with coloured pencils, by Big Back, a Cheyenne Indian,” in Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three
Years’ Personal Experience Among the red men of the Great West, by Colonel Richard Irving
Dodge, A.D.Worthington & Co., Chicago, Ill., 1884, p. 412. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C.
Tobias)
32.4 That Which Continues to Haunt