The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art

Michel Lorblanchet; Paul Bahn

ISBN 10: 0500051879 / ISBN 13: 9780500051870

Edité par Thames and Hudson Ltd, New York, 2017

A propos de cet article

Hardcover cream boards with black titling on the spine. Includes color and b/w illustrations, Bibliography and Index, 296 pages. The exception to the condition is a bump on the bottom of the spine. The DJ is in As New condition with the exception of a bump on the bottom of the spine.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art
• Éditeur: Thames and Hudson Ltd, New York
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0500051879
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780500051870
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New

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Synopsis

Where do we find the world’s very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, also capable of creating art? Prehistorians have been asking these questions of our ancestors for decades, but only very recently, with the development of cutting-edge scientific and archaeological techniques, have we been able to piece together the first chapter in the story of art. Overturning the traditional Eurocentric vision of our artistic origins, which has focused almost exclusively on the Franco-Spanish cave art, Paul Bahn and Michel Lorblanchet take the reader on a search for the earliest art across the whole world. They show that our earliest ancestors were far from being the creatively impoverished primitives of past accounts, and Europe was by no means the only ‘cradle’ of art; the artistic impulse developed in the human mind wherever it travelled. The long universal history of art mirrors the development of humanity.

À propos des auteurs

Michel Lorblanchet is a leading French specialist in the field of Palaeolithic art. In his former roles as Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and research consultant for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies he pioneered experimental methods of reproducing ancient art, as well as scientific methods for its dating. His Art pariétal: Grottes ornées du Quercy (Editions du Rouergue, 2010), the sum of forty-five years of research, is considered the definitive work on the art of the Quercy region, which includes more than thirty painted caves.

Paul Bahn is the author or editor of numerous books, including the standard introduction to cave art, Images of the Ice Age, as well as The First Artists (with Michel Lorblanchet).