Screen LibraryCave art
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Phaidon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 326 p.: col. ill., col. maps, col. plans ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780714845920 (hbk.) 0714845922 (hbk.) 9780714857237 (pbk.) 0714857238 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | K501 |
| CLC: |
K501.03 K885.09 |
| Call Number: | K885.09/C646 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-[323]) and index. pt. 1. 35,000-22,000 years ago : the age of Chauvet. -- The Chauvet cave -- Aurignacian art -- Gravettian art -- pt. 2. 22,000-17,000 years ago : the age of Lascaux. -- The Lascaux cave -- Solutrean art -- pt. 3. 17,000-11,000 years ago : the end of the Ice Age. -- The Niaux cave -- Magdalenian art -- pt. 4. From 11,000 years ago : after the Ice Age. This comprehensive guide to prehistoric art explores the origins of human artistic endeavor. Clottes takes the reader on a guided tour of 85 caves and rock shelters, mostly in western Europe, but also in Africa, Asia, the Americans, and Australia, to reveal the extraordinary beauty of the works of art found within them. |