What Is Paleolithic Art?
Title | What Is Paleolithic Art? PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Clottes |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2016-04-25 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 022618806X |
The noted archaeologist explores the varieties of prehistoric cave art across the world and offers surprising insights into its purpose and meaning. What drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the likenesses of lions, bison, horses, and aurochs as they flickered by firelight? Was it a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of the world? In this book, Jean Clottes, one of the most renowned figures in the study of cave paintings, pursues an answer to the “why” of Paleolithic art. Discussing sites and surveys across the world, Clottes offers personal reflections on how we have viewed these paintings in the past, what we learn from looking at them across geographies, and what these paintings may have meant—and what function they may have served—for their artists. Steeped in Clottes’s shamanistic theories of cave painting, What Is Paleolithic Art? travels from well-known Ice Age sites like Chauvet, Altamira, and Lascaux to visits with contemporary aboriginal artists, evoking a continuum between the cave paintings of our prehistoric past and the living rock art of today. Clottes’s work lifts us from the darkness of our Paleolithic origins to reveal surprising insights into how we think, why we create, why we believe, and who we are
The Nature of Paleolithic Art
Title | The Nature of Paleolithic Art PDF eBook |
Author | R. Dale Guthrie |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780226311265 |
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The Human Form in Palaeolithic Art
Title | The Human Form in Palaeolithic Art PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary Powers |
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Pages | 8 |
Release | 1994 |
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Human Form in Palacolithic Art
Title | Human Form in Palacolithic Art PDF eBook |
Author | Powers |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9782884490252 |
The Human Form in Palaeolithic Art
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The Dawn of European Art
Title | The Dawn of European Art PDF eBook |
Author | André Leroi-Gourhan |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1982-07-08 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521244596 |
Paleolithic Politics
Title | Paleolithic Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Cooper |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Pages | 519 |
Release | 2020-04-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0268107157 |
Using his background in political theory and philosophical anthropology, Barry Cooper is the first political scientist to propose new interpretations of some of the most famous extant Paleolithic art and artifacts in Paleolithic Politics. This book is inspired by Eric Voegelin, one of the major political scientists of the last century, who developed an interest in the very early symbolism associated with the caves and rock shelters of the Upper Paleolithic, but never finished his analysis. Cooper, who has written extensively on Voegelin’s theories, takes up the enterprise of applying Voegelin’s approach to an analysis of portable and cave art. He specifically applies Voegelin’s philosophy of consciousness, his concept of the compactness and differentiation of consciousness, his argument regarding the experience and symbolizations of reality, and his notion of the primary experience of the cosmos to images previously regarded as pedestrian. Cooper demonstrates the political significance of the earliest expressions of human existence and is among the first to argue that political life began not with the Greeks, but 25,000 years before them. Archaeologists, prehistorians, and political scientists will all benefit from this original and provocative work.