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发表于 2006-7-30 22:06:42
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Argument56kali艺术品
Outline:
1. the discovered molds are not necessarily used for making statues: religious use; sculpting tools may also be used
2. miniature statues’ abstraction and variation may derived from other reasons: small and easy to handle; different usages
3. sculpting tools hard to find have other reasons: already decayed, different places
4. the value of the sculpture does not lie in whether it is made out of mold or by sculpting tools.
5. conclusion
After the discovery of mold of human heads and hands on Kali—an indication, according to the arguer, of no sculpting tools and techniques—the speaker makes the assertion that Kalinese use molds of actual bodies to produce life-size statues, while the smaller ones are not, thus gives out the conclusion that the later one would increase in value whereas the former decreases. However, after an overall consideration of the seemingly cogent argument, we would find ourselves hardly be convinced.
Firstly, the discovery of molds of human heads and hands which the first conclusion that Kalinese artists used molds of actual bodies relies on may have different explanations including in the past, Kali people used human parts for some religious purposes or as a kind of sacred decoration, thus there is not enough information to illustrate that the only usage of those molds is to create statues. Besides, another conclusion drawn from this discovery by the arguer that the artists did not use sculpting tools and techniques presents a false dilemma in that even if the Kalinese really used human bodies as the mold of sculpture, it is not mutually exclusive with the tools and techniques the artist might also use. Only through different ways and aspects can a statue be perfected.
In the second place, the arguer’s attribution of the abstraction and various styles of miniature statues merely to that molds could only be used for life-size sculpture is also ignores many possibilities, such as the miniature statues are easier to handle when creating due to its small size, so people could made them into different styles; or the small ones are different from the bigger-size ones concerning their usage: the former maybe used more informally and can bear different meanings, thus could wear an abstract appearance and all sorts of styles whereas the later ones were only used for the formal occasions and had only one superior indication, therefore the image is unchanged. Before ruling out all the contingencies I stated above, it is impossible to demonstrate that the abstraction and variation of the miniature statues are derived only from the unqualified molds.
Moreover, the speaker ungroundedly assumes that the difficulty in finding sculpting tools is also due to the discovery of human body molds, which indicates that artists did not use sculpting tools. Since the basis itself is problematic, it does not lend strong, if any, support to this assumption. The difficulties people met when unearthing the tools maybe caused by several facts such as the tools have already decayed due to their easy-corrode material or they were hided so well that no one could find them till now. These possible explanations indicate the inclusiveness of the argument.
Last by not the least, arguer unfairly suggests a decrease in the value of life-size statues and an increase in that of the smaller ones only under the consideration of their different making process. The value of an artifact should be judged from various aspects including color, shape, meaning, date of birth, etc. besides the sculpting procedure.
To make this argument more convincing and cogent, a comprehensive analysis is required in order to take more possibilities into consideration and give out a right direction for the collectors.
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