areas i will attack in my essay

• Utopian ideas of Amarna art (the original influences).

• Medical (pathology): influence of the colossi on history. Here i think would be a good place to talk about ancient perspectives and compare this to it and colossi.

• Afrocentrism: Dominic Montserrat's History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt.

• Religious: focus on the Shu & Tefnut theory and others i can find.

• Artistic perspective: Gay Robins, how affects visual, changes in OUR perceptions of art through ages and how ties in with present theories i.e. technological evolution has meant that art no longer has to appear 'REAL', in our society the concept behind an artwork is increasingly becoming the main focus. ALSO when Picasso went to Africa there wasn't the desire to portray images as the appeared in life, hence the development of the cubism thing. I put this in b/c in many cultures (par Greek and Roman) there wasn't the desire to show life as it really was, it was more a stylistic rep, which is what it had been (depending on your opinion) until Amarna. I draw this conclusion b/c one cannot escape from the fact that especially as Amarna developed it seemed increasingly realistic; in William Stevenson Smith's book afore mentioned, there are two paster mask heads (p 104) look (in my opinion) kinda real, THEY HAVE WRINKLES. As MR. Wright has just pointed out, this is because of the experimental medium they were using; "the suggestion that they were casts taken to give more permanent form to exceptionally realistic sculptor's studies in clay deserves serious consideration... The wrinkles round the eyes and on the forehead of the old woman [324] and on the brow of the extraordinary old man [323] are unprecedented in earlier sculpture" (William Stevenson Smith, Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt)>> THIS IS BIG, sorry Gay.

• Rhetoric?

• Multiplicity of approaches. That this is more complex than it appears, Lise Manniche makes this point in her book

This is all so far, i want to talk about the crowns in there somewhere BUT I will need to take a re-look at that book, look for a greater number of historians and analyse them for their background (I will point out that in Montserrat's book there is a BIG discussion of historians). I will also need to brush up on my art history knowledge.

If i remember anything when i get home I will blog it, probs will be later (saturday b/c of carnival) :)