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The first artists : in search of the world's oldest art / Michel Lorblanchet and Paul Bahn ; foreword by Pierre Soulages.
Fine Arts Library N5310 .L698 2017
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Penn Museum Library N5310 .L698 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lorblanchet, Michel, 1937- author.
- Bahn, Paul G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Prehistoric.
- Art objects, Ancient.
- Tools, Prehistoric.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- In search of the world's oldest art
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd, [2017]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-290) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780500051870
- 0500051879
- OCLC:
- 951949647
- Publisher Number:
- 99973860924
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