Emily Sprouse
ART 101
13 October 2015
Art History in Real-Time Art is a human activity involving the intellect and emotions, which results in the creation of works with aesthetic features. It brings together different areas in constant evolution, including sculpture, painting, dance, poetry, cooking, film, printmaking, theater, comics, photography and digital art now. Study the trajectories of digital cultural assets is an entry point to better understand the social data. According to my studies, I noticed a certain rise of digital collections of artifacts and historical records in the Middle East. An artifact or artefact is an effect (lat. Factum) artificial the term refers to a phenomenon originally created from scratch …show more content…
Under the reign of Thutmose III in ancient Egypt and perhaps even before, artifacts were not destroyed by mere vandalism, but to remove names and faces of history - to erase the traces of the same existence 'a chef. Statues and frescoes depicting Queen Hatshepsut, the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, were damaged or demolished to remove his history and therefore its influence on Egyptian life. Under Itzcoatl, the Aztecs destroyed the codices of the conquered peoples, replacing history sanctioned by their state. They controlled companies by rewriting their history. Despots prefer simple stories to complex and nuanced story. For a decade, the headlines are full of stories of artifacts destroyed in hot spots in Asia. Just as the Khmer Rouge did in Cambodia a decade earlier, the Taliban destroyed Buddha statues in Bamiyan, World Heritage of UNESCO, in order to erase the imprint of a religion Indian arrived in Afghanistan a long time ago. Christian forces as Muslim have destroyed the library of Alexandria for the same reason: to fight the "paganism". Such actions are not intended to establish the supremacy of a religion, but rather to erase religion despised to eliminate the …show more content…
Although you can probably blame some of that destruction vandalism, the EIS has within an organization called "Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," whose task is among others to destroy artifacts from whether Islam. The destruction of cultural heritage by the IE, far from being mere manifestation of religious fanaticism, clearly has designs of propaganda and ideology. True to this goal, the EIS has also not spared Muslims. To date, he attacked mainly Islamic shrines, with the ultimate goal to exercise strict ideological control. The EIS destroyed treasures and valuable artifacts to fully control the message. History teaches us that no regime is eternal, which makes it even more tragic destruction of artifacts, always destroyed for nothing. The EI disfigures architectural and historical artifacts and killing anyone in its path. That's just a few days, the EIS murdered Khaled al-Asaad, the Syrian archaeologist who had refused to reveal the whereabouts of the artifacts excavated from Palmyra. While global archaeological community confronts this new wave of cultural destruction in Palmyra, Sascha Priewe, director of Ancient Cultures of ROM, discusses attacks against Palmyra with his colleague Clemens Reichel, associate curator of ancient cultures of the Near East at the ROM and professor Deputy civilizations of the