[gu-new] (07/06/07) "Invitation to the Dance" by Eric McLuhan

Fri Jul 6 11:26:55 EDT 2007

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Eric McLuhan
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Dear Eric:

(1) Many, many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) in response to our
following list distribution;

> (06/26/07) ICT-Learn2007 Conference in Cairo, Egypt and our final paper
> <http://tinyurl.com/2vly6d>

(2) I also greatly appreciated to receive your following very interesting
paper;

> ³Invitation to the Dance²
> <http://tinyurl.com/3doohp>

I read it with great interest ‹ I never thought that the static Egyptian
pictograph figure could have a dynamic animation depending on the view of
beholder.  You said as;

> ³At the outset of the Old Kingdom Egyptian artists invented a bold new graphic
> style, one attuned to their new sensibility and sense of adventure. They were
> embarking on a massive enterprise; the style helped cement their new identity,
> gave tangible expression to the new experience as they established a new land,
> a new people. The new artistic canon represented a confluence of various
> interests, social and political and artistic and religious. It and the
> emerging nation developed in parallel, along with a host of other social and
> cultural innovations. The fresh bold style epitomizes the new sensibility
> abroad in the new land; it proclaims stability, steadfastness and endurance.
> At the same time it is adventurous, daring, almost brash. Nothing like it had
> been seen before. It contributed powerfully to the new sense of group identity
> and group enterprise. It was‹is‹unique.
> 
> From the outset, they incorporated into the new style certain ambiguities that
> gave it the capacity for animation. They instituted a canon of aspects and
> proportions in their figure drawing, which they kept invariable throughout
> their long and turbulent history. Though other styles and influences were
> imported with the occasional invaders, they departed with them too. Each time
> Egypt regained her feet she dutifully returned to her primal canonical style.
> No other culture has ever exhibited such steadfastness or resolute adherence
> to a manner of drawing. One of the enduring questions about Egypt is this:
> what secret inducement or benefit could urge them to adhere so tenaciously to
> this peculiar style for over two thousand years? Significantly, let an artist
> or image deviate from that canonical style in any regard or degree, and the
> animation ceases.²

(3) This is a good introductory to the great ancient civilization of Egypt.

I will pass this article to me wife, Hisae, so that both of us will enjoy
our stay in Cairo, Egypt when I will be invited to the conference mentioned
in Item (1) above in early this coming September, and which is organized by
Prof. Al-Azab.

Thank you again for your very interesting article.

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I 

------ Forwarded Message
> From: Eric McLuhan <mcluhane at sympatico.ca>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:47:52 -0400
> To: <utsumi at columbia.edu>, <kinsgroup at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [gu-new] (06/26/07) ICT-Learn2007 Conference in Cairo, Egypt and
> our final paper
> 
> Dear Tak,
>     Thank you for the notice about the upcoming  conference.
>     I will not be able to attend due to conflicts. I would appreciate it if
> the paper attached were brought to the notice of interested delegates. It is
> also available at this site:  www.media-ecology.org.mx
>     The paper concerns some recent discoveries in the canonical art of the
> Old Kingdom, matters that extended from the first Pharaoh to at least the
> time of the Greek and Roman occupations. (Please excuse the admonitory tone
> in the Foreword: that was written for students.)
>     My best wishes for another revealing discussion this year.
>     Cordial regards,
> Dr. Eric McLuhan

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