Self-conscious-artists-everywhere:
By now, Lascaux has grown principally into a
massive conservation/preservation industry mobilizing
vast resources and hundreds of experts, many more
than those actually concerned with its artistic content.
Lascaux was NOT meant to be art!
These are
Religion is no more credible than art, to describe Lascaux, perhaps
much less so due to its hyper-explanatory application to cultures (also
an aggregatingly suspect term) from a polished view, to gloss raw material
with a narrative rationale likely to appeal to consumers, or best, to funders
of
Lascaux is far from being low cost/free and with global reach, which I had
in mind.
Show me someone who contributes to 'social media' today with an eye on
recognition 10,000 years from now. Which is what transpired in Lascaux -
the style did not change for thousands of years, and very few
