Author: Edouard PiettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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L'art Pendant L'age Du Renne
Author: Edouard Piette
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738169996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 899
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Transfixed by Prehistory
Author: Maria StavrinakiPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 194213066X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoric Prehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and acceleration of production and circulation, three major Western narratives about time took shape. One after another, these new fields of inquiry delved into the obscure immensity of the past: first, to surmise the age of the Earth; second, to find the point of emergence of human beings; and third, to ponder the age of art. Maria Stavrinaki considers the inseparability of these accounts of temporality from the disruptive forces of modernity. She asks what a history of modernity and its art would look like if considered through these three interwoven inventions of the longue durée. Transfixed by Prehistory attempts to articulate such a history, which turns out to be more complex than an inevitable march of progress leading up to the Anthropocene. Rather, it is a history of stupor, defamiliarization, regressive acceleration, and incessant invention, since the “new” was also found in the deep sediments of the Earth. Composed of as much speed as slowness, as much change as deep time, as much confidence as skepticism and doubt, modernity is a complex phenomenon that needs to be rethought. Stavrinaki focuses on this intrinsic tension through major artistic practices (Cézanne, Matisse, De Chirico, Ernst, Picasso, Dubuffet, Smithson, Morris, and contemporary artists such as Pierre Huyghe and Thomas Hirschhorn), philosophical discourses (Bataille, Blumenberg, and Jünger), and the human sciences. This groundbreaking book will attract readers interested in the intersections of art history, anthropology, psychoanalysis, mythology, geology, and archaeology.
Fossil Man in Spain
Author: Hugo ObermaierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glacial epoch
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Painted Caves
Author: Andrew J. LawsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199698228
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Written from an archaeological perspective, Painted Caves is a beautifully illustrated introduction to the oldest art of Western Europe: the very ancient paintings found in caves. Lawson offers an up to date overview of the geographical distribution of the sites and their significance within the varied network of Palaeolithic art.
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Author: Glasgow Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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The Cave Painters
Author: Gregory CurtisPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307482707
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery. Gregory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon people of some 40,000 years ago. He takes us through various theories—that the art was part of fertility or hunting rituals, or used for religious purposes, or was clan mythology—examining the ways interpretations have changed over time. Rich in detail, personalities, and history, The Cave Painters is above all permeated with awe for those distant humans who developed—perhaps for the first time—both the ability for abstract thought and a profound and beautiful way to express it.
The brain from ape to man; a contribution to the study of the
Author: Frederick TilneyTransactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society
Author: An Archaeological Survey of the United Kingdom
Author: David MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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