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The first artists : in search of the world's oldest art
- Title
- The first artists : in search of the world's oldest art / Michel Lorblanchet and Paul Bahn ; foreword by Pierre Soulages.
- Author
- Lorblanchet, Michel, 1937-
- Publication
- London ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- 296 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- Where 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-290) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Pierre Soulages -- Introduction: what is 'art'? -- 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 -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780500051870
- 0500051879
- LCCN
- 40027482592
- OCLC
- ocn951949647
- 951949647
- SCSB-8869286
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries