Michel Lorblanchet, Paul Bahn

The First Artists

In Search of the World's Oldest Art

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Produktbeschreibung

Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art take the reader on a journey across the globe and hundreds of thousands of years into the past to discover the deepest origins of art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9780500051870
• ISBN-10: 0500051879
• Artikelnr.: 45190417

Autorenporträt

Michel Lorblanchet is a leading French specialist in the field of Palaeolithic art. In his former roles as Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and research consultant for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies he pioneered experimental methods of reproducing ancient art, as well as scientific methods for its dating. His Art pariétal: Grottes ornées du Quercy (Editions du Rouergue, 2010), the sum of forty-five years of research, is considered the definitive work on the art of the Quercy region, which includes more than thirty painted caves.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What is Art? . 1. Early Attempts to Tackle the Problem:
Theories, Chimps and Children . 2. Finding art in Nature: the first
stirrings of an aesthetic sense . 3. Can we see art in the first tools? .
4. All work and no play? Looking at marks on bones and stones . 5. Figuring
it out - the first carvings . 6. Jingles and bangles: seeking the origins
of music and decorated bodies . 7. First art in the landscape . 8. The
writing's on the wall . 9. The appearance of rock art around the world .
Conclusion