Putting together a slide show to coach my daughter for her History of Art exams last year when covering "Cycladic art" (sic), I came across this photo. It is of course 'Star Trek' (apparently Star Trek "Voyager", series 1 episode "Time and Again").
It makes one think where the portable antiquities we discuss today will be in half a millennium from now.
ah... but you're just looking at the photo out of context of the star trek episode's story!
ReplyDeleteyou see, this isn't from a future HUMAN civilization. this is supposedly artwork from an alien civilization.
Thanks.
ReplyDeleteIf that is so, I wonder what it is doing on the ship? So colonialist attitudes to the culture of others continue into the future then?
no.... i believe it's a culture that hadn't had contact with humans before (i really should rewatch the show).
ReplyDeletewhich is why i was surprised. i think it's just a matter of the prop director needing a cool-looking piece of art and selected these, which DO look kind of modern and sleek.
kind of like using a salt-shaker for mccoy's medical scanner.