Clottes, Jean

What is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

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ISBN 13:
9780226266633
author:
Clottes, Jean
format:
Paperback
publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2016
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 centimetres
Genre:
Art, Fashion & Photography, Art & design, Art & design styles / history of art,
Condition:
New
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£20.82

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What Is Paleolithic Art? explores the creative impulse behind the world's oldest art, uncovering the spiritual and shamanistic conceptions that drove our Stone Age ancestors to paint in caves. Jean Clottes, a renowned expert in the field, takes a contemplative journey across the globe, reflecting on how we have viewed these paintings in the past and what they may have meant to their artists.

From well-known Ice Age sites like Chauvet, Altamira, and Lascaux, to visits with contemporary aboriginal artists, Clottes reveals a continuum between the cave paintings of our prehistoric past and the living rock art of today. This book lifts us from the darkness of our Paleolithic origins, revealing how we think, why we create, and who we are.

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