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

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By (author): Michel Lorblanchet Paul Bahn

Where do we find the worlds 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. See more
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  • Weight: 650g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Jul 2017
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780500051870

About Michel LorblanchetPaul Bahn

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).

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