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Or: how modern rationalists reinterpret historical records of psychic imagery through a matierialist causality predicated on psychadelic chemicals, because 1960
by cat199 9y ago
Or: how modern rationalists reinterpret historical records of psychic imagery through a matierialist causality predicated on psychadelic chemicals, because 1960s.
- ch4s3 9y agoAre you suggesting that Bosch would have had no knowledge, or that outbreaks during his life would have had no influence on his work? He was from a town with a church dedicated to Saint Anthony, who was associated at the time with ergot poisoning. The paper isn't even suggesting that he consumed ergot (as that would have likely killed him), but that feverish hallucinations of its victims may have influenced his visions of hell.
- chews 9y agosmart ass response is smart ass.
- dang 9y agoPlease don't post like this here, regardless of how bad you consider another comment to be. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gt_ 9y agoThanks for commenting this. I'm sure there is some relation, sure. But, the correlations in this article and many other articles on hyperallergic are utterly materialist, unimaginative and limited. This is not to say they are wrong but I think they are a cumulative distraction from the understandings art history beholds. The article gets so lost in drawing material correlations that a newcomer to art history would be drawn to overlook the human correlations.