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<p>This paper reviews prior work in art history about worldviews and the methodological challenges it has faced toward a&#xa0;new engagement in art history with primals theory. After reviewing the individualistic focus of art history and how such a&#xa0;humanistic discipline can hope to connect to a&#xa0;science like psychology, the review discusses early attempts to link art history to worldview. A&#xa0;good deal of time is spent on challenges to the derivation of mentality and worldview from works of art in the scholarship of the post-war period, so that these challenges can be met today. The most significant of them is the problem of how a&#xa0;worldview can be deposited in a&#xa0;symbolic artifact, and theories that sought to link these are reviewed. Next, debating historiographic models that have reintroduced worldviews into discussion, their careful use of simple units with conscious adaptation (not unconsciously determined) is noted. Finally, three case studies are reviewed to attempt a&#xa0;first connection of art history to primals, seeking to cover past societies with differing primals, two competing, contemporary primals, and lastly the primals held by the same individual.</p>

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Primal world beliefs and art

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    2025年8月6日

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  • Ian Verstegen

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This paper reviews prior work in art history about worldviews and the methodological challenges it has faced toward a new engagement in art history with primals theory. After reviewing the individualistic focus of art history and how such a humanistic discipline can hope to connect to a science like psychology, the review discusses early attempts to link art history to worldview. A good deal of time is spent on challenges to the derivation of mentality and worldview from works of art in the scholarship of the post-war period, so that these challenges can be met today. The most significant of them is the problem of how a worldview can be deposited in a symbolic artifact, and theories that sought to link these are reviewed. Next, debating historiographic models that have reintroduced worldviews into discussion, their careful use of simple units with conscious adaptation (not unconsciously determined) is noted. Finally, three case studies are reviewed to attempt a first connection of art history to primals, seeking to cover past societies with differing primals, two competing, contemporary primals, and lastly the primals held by the same individual.