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The Olmec left us very few clues.
奧爾梅克人沒給我們留下多少線索
But what they did give us is a powerful, in-your-face reminder
但他們的確留下了一個直接有力的提示
that, no matter where in the world,
提示我們 無論在這個世界的哪個角落
when civilisations first made art,
當文明第一次出現藝術創作時
they made it about us.
創作都是關于人類自身
I want to explore why that is.
我想探索這種現象的原因
What were those early people doing this for?
那些古人為什么這樣做呢
What part did images of the body play
那些社會最初創作的人像
in the societies which first created them?
在社會上扮演了什么角色呢
I'm not just going to be concentrating on the artists--
我不想只關注藝術家
I want to take a different approach.
我想換一個視角
I'll be trying to see these bodies through the eyes of the people
我會嘗試從古人的角度觀察這些人像
who lived with them, used them, and looked at them.
那些曾一同生活 使用 注視過它們的人
And that's not all.
而這還不是全部
I want to show how one particular way
我想展示一種特殊的
of representing the human body--
描繪人體的技法
one that goes all the way back to ancient Greece--
這技法可以一直追溯到古希臘
became more influential than any other,
看它是如何比其它任何方法都更具影響力
coming to shape our Western ways of seeing.
以至于決定了我們西方看問題的角度
