According to Allen Combs a professor of Consciousness Studies, “[poet and cultural historian Jean] Gebser’s explorations of art and history [began] with a sudden recognition that art at the fin de siècle represented a new kind of consciousness, a new way of seeing and experiencing reality.” In Combs article he goes on to explain how art and human consciousness has evolved beginning with the idea that consciousness is external or separate from ourselves.
…the number of points of view from which a modern person can see and understand the world is much greater than those available to our ancestors.
When we look at the oldest works of art …
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