... with a camera? In a nineteenth-century painting, Interior with Portraits, by the American artist Thomas LeClear, two children stand painfully still while a photographer prepares to take their picture. The paintings and sculptures that fill the studio have been shoved aside to make way for a new kind of art-the photograph. As the photographer adjusts the lens of his camera, we see his ... in top register of the Bull lyre of 2685 BCE. The athlete statue is not a realistic representation of a human figure. Due to distortions and sharp angles, the figure is fairly abstract. The emphasis, cl...

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