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The First Artists

Autor Paul Bahn, Michel Lorblanchet Cuvânt înainte de Pierre Soulages
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2017

Where is the world's very first art located? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms, and colors? Prehistorians have long been asking these questions, but only recently have they been able to piece together the first chapter in the story of art.

Overturning the traditional Eurocentric vision of our artistic origins, Paul Bahn and Michel Lorblanchet seek out the earliest art across the whole world. There are clues that even three million years ago distant human ancestors were drawn to natural curiosities that appeared representational, such as the face-like "Makapansgat cobble" from South Africa, not carved but naturally weathered to resemble a human face. In the last hundred thousand years people all over the world began to create art: the oldest known paint palettes in South Africa's Blombos Cave, the famous Venus figures across Europe all the way to Siberia, and magnificent murals on cave walls in every continent except Antarctica.

This book is the first to assess the discovery, history, and significance of these varied forms of art: the artistic impulse developed in the human mind wherever it traveled.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780500051870
ISBN-10: 0500051879
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Thames & Hudson

Notă biografică

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.


Cuprins

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

Descriere

Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art delve hundreds of thousands of years into the human past to discover the earliest works of art ever made, drawing on decades of new research