Sarah Blaffer Hrdy can see
patterns — inheritance and patriarchy and sexual selection and maternal
ambivalence, all the traits
of all the ancestors who came before, back and back and back to the advent
of man and woman.
The dynamics
of Markus Lüpertz's art showed a similar
ambivalence between art - historical allusion and its sublimation into a jagged abstraction, as though following the Freudian
pattern of penetrating the past by foregoing all established routes.