Post #430174 by ManFromT.I.K.I. on Fri, Jan 23, 2009 8:27 AM

Interesting chart! What strikes me is that even for pop culture, Tiki follows the model taught in art history courses regarding cultural development: proto/archaic--classic--baroque (the latter accompanied by wide spread dissemination and eventual "watering down" of the classic ideal as the intent of the original ideal gets confused and forgotten.

Or as Renaissance historian Vasari put it: "the style ceased, for the particular type of civilization it expressed had come to and end".