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Title
Cave art / Jean Clottes.
Author
Clottes, Jean.
ISBN
9780714845920 (hbk.)
0714845922 (hbk.)
9780714857237 (pbk.)
0714857238 (pbk.)
0714845922 (hbk.)
9780714857237 (pbk.)
0714857238 (pbk.)
Publication Details
London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
326 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color plans ; 29 cm
Item Number
2778311
Call Number
N5310.5.E85 C56 2008
Alternate Call Number
J238.6
Dewey Decimal Classification
759.0113094
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-323) and index.
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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.
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.