Totemic act
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"Undoubtedly the first man was an artist. A science of paleontology that sets forth this proposition can be written if it builds on the postulate that the aesthetic act always precedes the social one. The totemic act of wonder in front of the tiger-ancestor came before the act of murder." --"The First Man Was an Artist" (1947) by Barnett Newman |
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The phrase "totemic act has come to prominence in the 21st century.
It was perhaps first used by by Barnett Newman in his text "The First Man Was an Artist" (1947).
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