Divinatory art, a legacy of sacred traditions

In this 51-minutes conference, Laurence Caruana analyses the “hieratic” and “primordial” qualities of sacred art. Through Hindu, Buddhist, Egyptian and Greek, Aztecs and Maya traditions, he unveils the concept of secret art common to all arts of history. Observing its slow disappearance in western art, he tries to understand the cause by the arrival of “humanist” qualities. At last, he shows how and why divinatory art, both modern and traditional, incorporate these different “humanists” and “hieratic” styles to be in a long timeless and eternal tradition of an ancestral art.