What Is Paleolithic Art
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What Is Paleolithic Art
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Author : Jean Clottes
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-04-25
What Is Paleolithic Art written by Jean Clottes and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-25 with Art categories.
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
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Author : R. Dale Guthrie
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005
The Nature Of Paleolithic Art written by R. Dale Guthrie and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
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Prehistoric Art Paleolithic Painting And Sculpture
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Author : Paule Marie Grand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Prehistoric Art Paleolithic Painting And Sculpture written by Paule Marie Grand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Art categories.
Interpretation Of Prehistoric Cave Art In Europe
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Author : Difrine Madara
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2019-11-12
Interpretation Of Prehistoric Cave Art In Europe written by Difrine Madara and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-12 with Social Science categories.
Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Archaeology, grade: A, Kenyatta University, language: English, abstract: This essay offers a critical analysis of various explanations that have been suggested for the meaning of European Paleolithic rock art. Rock or cave art has been recorded in Europe, Americas, Africa, Australia and Asia. In Europe, some of the recorded forms of rock art date back some 36000 years ago. However, archaeological findings show that it is until 18000 years ago that the European rock art flourished. This period is linked to the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (22000-19000 years ago) as climatic conditions began to improve i.e. the most critical point of the Ice Age. Nonetheless, Upper Paleolithic rock art disappeared during the transition period between Paleolithic-Mesolithic (12000 years) as Ice Age environmental conditions faded. After over a century of research on cave art, there still exists no consensus on the meanings of these prehistoric arts. Currently, the widely accepted view on interpretation of the Upper Paleolithic art is that most cave images are manifestations of Shamanic rituals mediated through visionary experience of altered states of consciousness. However, the question on how and why art come it being in Upper Paleolithic during the Ice Age remains largely unanswered. Berghaus argued that there is no single answer to the question but rather several layers of answers highlighting the issues and relationships between art and rituals as well as behavioral, social and cognitive issues within the human evolutionary environment.
Prehistoric Art
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Author : Randall White
language : en
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Release Date : 2003
Prehistoric Art written by Randall White and has been published by Harry N. Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
Drawing on the most up-to-the-minute research on prehistoric art, an anthropologist presents a global survey, starting with the first explosion of imagery that occurred approximately 40,000 years ago but also including the creations of essentially "prehistoric" peoples living as recently as the early 20th century. 226 illustrations.
Prehistoric Art Or The Origin Of Art As Manifested In The Works Of Prehistoric Man
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Author : Thomas Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Prehistoric Art Or The Origin Of Art As Manifested In The Works Of Prehistoric Man written by Thomas Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Art, Prehistoric categories.
New Perspectives On Prehistoric Art
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Author : Günter Berghaus
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2004-04-30
New Perspectives On Prehistoric Art written by Günter Berghaus and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-30 with Social Science categories.
Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors. In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and functions of prehistoric paintings and sculptures. This new collection of essays explores these insights, gathering the observations of eight experts from a variety of disciplines, and examining some of the social and spiritual functions of a variety of artistic genres ranging from 40,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. These insights, which derive from evolutionary biology, feminist scholarship, ritual studies, and new modes of anthropology, argue collectively that prehistoric art was a culture-specific form of communication that should be interpreted in the social context of early hunger-gatherer societies and should not be measured with the criteria and paradigms of modern art. Essential reading for anyone interested in prehistoric art or its cultural implications, this volume represents a bold step forward in the research and analysis of the very first artists.
Prehistoric Art
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Author : T. G. E POWELL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Prehistoric Art written by T. G. E POWELL and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Prehistoric Art
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Author : Paule-Marie Grand-Chastel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Prehistoric Art written by Paule-Marie Grand-Chastel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.
Prehistoric Art In Europe
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Author : Nancy K. Sandars
language : en
Publisher: Puffin Books
Release Date : 1985
Prehistoric Art In Europe written by Nancy K. Sandars and has been published by Puffin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Art, Prehistoric categories.
"Until around 10,000 B.C. art in Europe appears to have been in advance of the rest of the world, and throws a valuable if intermittent, light on the total history of early man. The great masterpieces of cave-painting at Lascaux are well known, and one tradition of early sculpture is from the first surprisingly classical. With the shelter paintings of the Spanish Levant and the clay modelling and painted pottery of eastern Europe in the fourth and third millennia B.C. fresh artistic problems were tackled. Later still evolved the high technical accomplishment of the metal-workers, and this masterly study concludes with an account of the original and exciting new departures of Celtic La Tene art of the last four centuries B.C."--BOOK COVER.