THE ASCENT OF MAN
art work by Bruce McCall with animation by Smiley Guy Studios

Bruce McCall's May 14, 2007 cover of The New Yorker is about man's obsession with progress and technology. The artwork features an ape on a rock who evolves into a cave man, an Egyptian, a soldier etc. and along with these evolutions come the technologies of each new civilization. McCall's original art is animated by Toronto's Smiley Guy Studios.

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