Sign Off

            This is Dan signing off.  Not sure what I’m supposed to write exactly.  I enjoyed the class, we covered some interesting topics, and I really enjoyed studying graffiti and the cave paintings in the Dordogne Valley.  The diversity of the presentations by my fellow classmates brought some extra dimensions to the class, as well as some new perspectives.  This was my favorite part of the class; the presentations were all very well done.  I learned about a bunch of topics that I otherwise wouldn’t have known anything about.  It was also real great that there were some similar subjects discussed but with a slightly different scope or perspective.  I thought the evolutionary perspective in “What is Art For?” was interesting, it made really good sense in some places but other portions of the book disinterested me.  I thought ethno-aesthetic analysis is a good tool when analyzing art, but it needs to be grounded in a further understanding of a culture.