The first artists : in search of the world's oldest art
Lorblanchet, Michel, 1937-2017
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Place reservation for The first artists : in search of the world's oldest artWhere do we find the world's very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colors? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, also capable of creating art? Prehistorians have been asking these questions of our ancestors for decades, but only very recently, with the development of cutting-edge scientific and archaeological techniques, have we been able to piece together the first chapter in the story of art.
Main title:
The first artists : in search of the world's oldest art / Michel Lorblanchet and Paul Bahn ; foreword by Pierre Soulages.
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Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2017.©2017
Collation:
296 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-290) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Theories, chimps and children: early attempts to tackle the problem -- 2.Finding art in nature: the first stirrings of an aesthetic sense -- 3.Can we see art in the first tools? Polyhedrons, spheroids and handaxes -- 4.All work and no play? Looking at marks on bones and stones -- 5.Figuring it out: pierres-figures and the first carvings -- 6.Jingles and bangles: the origin of music and decorated bodies -- 7.The first art in the landscape: dots and lines -- 8.The writing's on the wall: the earliest cave art -- 9.A global phenomenon: the appearance of rock art around the world.
ISBN:
9780500051870
Dewey class:
709.011
Language:
English
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BRN:
345953
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