The first artists : in search of the world's oldest art / Michel Lorblanchet and Paul Bahn ; foreword by Pierre Soulages
2017, First Edition. London : Thames & Hudson Ltd. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Stains to boards. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #458037
ISBN: 9780500051870
Physical description; 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Notes; 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. Subjects; Art, Prehistoric. Art, Primitive. Art objects, Ancient. Tools, Prehistoric. Antiquities, Prehistoric.
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